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Elections and Inflation
Overshadowed by the recent mid-term elections, the latest tabulation of inflation was released. Despite its relative absence from the headlines, inflation is by far the more important near-term driver of both stock and bond performance, as opposed to political winners and losers. With inflation actually lowering a bit, the Federal Reserve should be able to ease off the economic brakes—a bit—and potentially create a more hospitable environment for investors.
Inflation - What's the Deal?
Prices for both consumers and companies have been soaring at a rate not seen in decades. That rapid increase in prices makes it harder for companies to plan their operations. When companies pay more for goods, they can be hard-pressed to maintain their profitability without raising prices on consumers. Understandably, companies often loathe increasing prices for fear of alienating otherwise loyal customers.
Inflation also eats into consumers’ paychecks. For many individuals, paying more for gas, eggs, or electricity means having to pay less for something else. Higher wages have offset some of the price increases, but not fully.
Consumer Price Increases
Year-over-year percent change
Source: Kestra Investment Management data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation in a selection of categories of the Consumer Price Index. Data as of October 31, 2022.
Think of the Federal Reserve as playing "Goldilocks"—trying to find the “just right” level of inflation somewhere between “too fast” and “too slow.” Policymakers aspire to some increase in prices that is relatively stable over time and one that runs below the overall level of economic growth. The Fed has argued that an inflation rate of 2%, in which goods and services in aggregate increase year after year at a moderate and predictable pace, is the most healthy for the economy. Interestingly, for years, particularly after the financial crisis, inflation was more likely to be below that target than above.
What About Economic Growth?
Investors aren’t just worried about the direct effects of inflation; they’re worried about the collateral damage from the Fed’s fight against rising prices. To combat inflation, the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates, hoping to weaken economic demand. If, for instance, higher interest rates have made loans more expensive to pay for, then a company will be less willing to borrow money to, say, build a new factory. And a homebuyer will be forced to buy a less expensive house. Those forces in aggregate mean economic growth slows and sometimes turns negative, tripping the economy into recession.
Does Slowing Inflation Drive Stock Gains?
In October, consumer prices rose by 7.7%, almost four times the rate of the Fed’s target and definitely in the “too fast” camp. But because that rate was less than economic experts had expected and lower than the prior month when prices rose by an even hotter 8.2%—stocks rallied as the S&P 500 posted its best one-day performance since April 2020, climbing 5.5%! Bond yields fell, anticipating that inflation will continue to ease and allow the Fed to be less aggressive in hiking interest rates and slowing the economy.
Inflation Shows Signs of Slowing
Source: Kestra Investment Management data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data as of October 31, 2022.
Slower inflation will make the Fed’s job easier, assuming this trend continues. With price increases moderating, interest rates won’t have to climb as much as some had feared in order to beat inflation back to that “just right” place. Considering that, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by half a percentage point in mid-December—a rate that would be considered hefty in other cycles but is slower than other hikes this cycle, a positive for both stocks and bonds.
The hope is that with less dramatic interest rate increases from the Fed, economic growth will not slow as much as feared. All that said, the economy will continue to face headwinds from earlier interest rate hikes. The Fed’s brakes take a while to work their way through an economy and will continue to be felt for some time. But the market has already started looking past that slowdown to brighter days ahead and to a “just right” level of inflation.
What to Do Now?
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Social Workers and Welfare Policy Makers
This section will focus on the media representation of two key actors in the field of welfare, namely social work practitioners, and welfare policy makers.
Introducing Independent Children’s Trusts hails a major change in the relationships between local authorities, the government (Department of Education), social workers, and families with child protection issues.
It takes out the most dominant component of social work in the UK from the control of local authorities to the direct control of central government. Thus local accountability is removed, and social workers stop to be part of the workforce of local authorities. It will be easier to hire and fire social workers.
Supporters of this change argue that it will offer a less bureaucratic service, more able to innovate.
Opponents of the change, such as the British Association of Social Workers, argue that in addition to being removed from local accountability and loss of workers’ rights, such trusts will depend more heavily on central government’s ideological preferences. The move also weakens considerably the place of social work in local authorities, and weakens local authorities’ power.
The move to the new structure comes as a response to the serious problems in the quality of care offered by a number of child protection services in the country. It also follows the wish of the current UK government to privatise child care services.
The new trusts claim improvement in the services they offer, and a move to put in place more innovative projects for sub-groups such as young people experiencing domestic abuse. It remains to be seen if services for children and their families will improve steadily and significantly.
- Social work diary: “A teenager in care says his foster carer starves and beats him” - Community Care, 15 June, 2015
- Children’s services in Birmingham to be run by independent trust - Community Care, 24 May, 2016
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10 Things You Shouldn’t Do as You Get Older
Ah, aging. That wonderful time in life when you start finding gray hairs in places you didn’t even know you had hair. So, you want to look like a wrinkled raisin as you get older? Fantastic. Here’s your ultimate guide to embracing the “I’ve given up” look. Remember, this is all in good fun – or is it?
1. Shun the Sunscreen
First off, throw away that sunscreen. Who needs protection from the sun’s harmful UV rays? Embrace those wrinkles and sunspots! Let’s make leather skin the new trend. Bonus points if you perfect the lobster-red sunburn look every summer.
2. Skip the Skincare Routine
Next, forget about a skincare routine. All that cleansing, toning and moisturizing? Overrated, right? Let your pores revel in the glory of dirt and grime. It’s the natural look, after all. And as for anti-aging creams, let’s just laugh at them, shall we?
3. Embrace Stress
Make stress your best friend. Why meditate or do yoga when you can bask in the glory of chronic stress? After all, those frown lines aren’t going to create themselves! Remember, the more you furrow that brow, the more character you add to your face.
4. Shy Away from Sleep
Sleep is for the weak! Cut down those hours of beauty sleep. Dark circles and bags under your eyes are the new “in” thing. They scream, “I live an exciting life,” or maybe just, “I binge-watched an entire season last night.”
5. Say No to Healthy Eating
Ditch the fruits, veggies and gallons of water. Bring on the processed foods and sugary drinks! Who needs glowing skin when you can have the greasy shine of a French fry?
6. Absolutely No Facelifts or Botox
Facelifts and Botox? Why go through all that effort to look young and fresh-faced like those youthful-looking people with the best mini facelift results? Let gravity do its thing. Let those jowls and saggy eyelids become your most striking features.
7. Ignore Your Hair
Let’s not forget about hair! Grays are the universe’s natural highlights, so why cover them up? And haircuts? Overrated. Let’s bring back the unkempt, I-don’t-care look. It’s vintage, right?
8. Don’t Smile Too Much
Limit your smiling. It’s said that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, so why waste energy? Plus, smiling leads to laugh lines, and we can’t have you looking too happy now, can we?
9. Wear Outdated or Ill-Fitting Clothes
Fashion is fleeting, so why bother? Embrace those outdated trends and ill-fitting clothes. Comfort over style, and if it’s got a hole or two, well, that just adds character.
10. Avoid Exercise
Last but not least, exercise is a no-go. Why stay fit and flexible when you can embrace the sedentary lifestyle? Let’s hear it for the couch potatoes!
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Delta Plus might be the reason: What Maharashtra experts say about this variant
Delta Plus might affect Maharashtra more than the first and the second wave and the active Covid-19 cases might rise to 8 lakh, state task force has warned.
The new variant of Delta Covid-19 virus, which is being termed as Delta Plus, is not yet a variant of concern in India, but experts in Maharashtra have warned that this variant may be the reason behind a third wave of the pandemic, which could take active Covid-19 patients up to eight lakh and 10 per cent of them could be children.
The Covid-19 task force of Maharashtra, the state which bears the maximum brunt of any wave of the pandemic, made a presentation to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, where they voiced their concern.
“The Delta plus variant could stoke the third wave in Maharashtra. It could spread at double the rate," said an official during the presentation.
In the first wave, the number of Covid-19 patients was highest at 3,01,752 on September 13, 2020, and in the second wave, the highest was on April 22, when the number reached 6,99,858.
If a third wave caused by Delta Plus hits, the number will be the highest, according to the projection. The projection is worrisome as many people will be completely vaccinated by that time.
1st Delta Plus reported in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh has reported the first case of Delta plus in Bhopal, state medical education minister Vishwas Sarang has confirmed. The patient is a 65-year-old woman and her condition is stable. Reports said she has received vaccines.
What is Delta Plus?
A variant of interest, Delta Plus is a mutation of the Delta virus, which was first reported in India. As on June 7, this variant was present in six genomes in India. This variant is believed to be more virulent. It has been claimed that this variant nullified the use of the monoclonal antibody. This variant has been seen in Europe since March and was brought into the public domain on June 13.
(With Agency inputs)
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. The British sent troops to America to enforce the unpopular new laws, further heightening tensions between Great Britain and the American colonies in the run-up to the American Revolutionary War.
The British Crown emerged victorious from the French and Indian War in 1763, but defending the North American colonies from French expansion had proved tremendously costly to England.
Compared to Great Britain’s debts, the cost of the French and Indian War to the colonists had been slight. The colonists—who arguably enjoyed a higher standard of living at the time than their British counterparts—paid less than one-twentieth the taxes of British citizens living in England.
The British government thought the colonists should help pay the cost of their protection. The British Parliament enacted a series of taxes on the colonies for the purpose of raising revenue. Early attempts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765—which taxed colonists for every piece of paper they used—were met with widespread protests in America.
The Townshend Acts, named after Charles Townshend, British chancellor of the Exchequer, imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies.
Benjamin Franklin had informed the British Parliament that the colonies intended to start manufacturing their own goods rather than paying duties on imports. These particular items were chosen for taxation because Townshend thought they would be difficult things for the colonists to produce on their own. He estimated the duties would raise approximately 40,000 pounds, with most of the revenue coming from tea.
While the original intent of the import duties had been to raise revenue, Charles Townshend saw the policies as a way to remodel colonial governments. The Townshend Acts would use the revenue raised by the duties to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges, ensuring the loyalty of America’s governmental officials to the British Crown. However, these policies prompted colonists to take action by boycotting British goods.
Charles Townshend didn’t live to see the measures enacted. He died suddenly in September 1767, before the detrimental effects of his signature rules could materialize.
Townshend Act Protests
The Townshend duties went into effect on November 20, 1767, close on the heels of the Declaratory Act of 1766, which stated that British Parliament had the same authority to tax the American colonies as they did in Great Britain. By December, two widely circulated documents had united colonists in favor of a boycott of British goods.
These influential pamphlets included “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania,” a series of essays written by Pennsylvania legislator John Dickinson and the “Massachusetts Circular Letter,” a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr. and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to other colonial legislatures.
With the help of the Sons of Liberty—a secret society of American business leaders who coined the phrase “taxation without representation”—24 towns in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island agreed to boycott British goods in January 1768.
With the exception of necessities, such as fishing hooks and wire, New England merchants agreed not to import British goods for one year. New York followed suit in April, with an even more restrictive non-importation agreement.
In response to protests and boycotts, the British sent troops to occupy Boston and quell the unrest.
Repeal of the Townshend Acts
By 1769, more than 2,000 British troops had arrived in Boston to restore order—a large number considering only about 16,000 people lived in Boston at the time.
Skirmishes between patriot colonists and British soldiers—as well as colonists loyal to the British Crown—became increasingly common. To protest taxes, patriots often vandalized stores selling British goods and intimidated store merchants and their customers.
Tensions between the colonists and British troops finally boiled over on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot into an angry mob, killing five American colonists in an event known as the Boston Massacre.
Little did the colonists or British soldiers know that across the ocean on the same day as the Boston Massacre, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord North, had asked Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
All of the Townshend Acts—except for the tax on tea—were repealed in April 1770. The tax on tea would remain a flashpoint and a contributing factor to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, in which angry colonists destroyed an entire shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. To quell resistant and punish the colonists—particularly the demonstrators in Boston—Parliament passed The Coercive Acts of 1774, which colonists referred to as the Intolerable Acts. The four Intolerable Acts included the Massachusetts Government Act, instituting an appointed government over the previously-elected, local one; the Boston Port Bill closing Boston Harbor; the Administration of Justice Act, which dictated that British officials could be tried in another colony or in England if charged with capital offenses; and the Quartering Act, which said unoccupied buildings could be used to quarter British troops. The combined force of these acts culminated in the American Revolution, which was kicked off when the “shot heard round the world” was fired on April 19, 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. | <urn:uuid:676ca474-d09f-4053-ac56-a7d5817662e9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts | 2024-04-17T08:29:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.966881 | 1,133 |
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Principles of selecting gate valve, the gate valve should be the first choice when shut-off valves need to be used for pipelines. Normally, globe valves are a little bit expensive than gate valves, but a little cheaper than metal-sealed ball valves, seldom used as shut-off valves for main pipelines.
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1. Principles of selecting gate valve,
2. Principles of selecting globe valve,
Principles of selecting gate valve
1. Although gate valves are not restricted by the temperature as well as pressure, for gate valves with large nominal diameters and gate valves used under the medium and low pressure conditions, they are not as economical as butterfly valves. In addition, butterfly valves have the advantages of light weight and occupying small space.
2. There is a non-linear proportional relationship between the gate valves' opening height and circulation area. Generally, gate valves can only be applied to fully open or closed occasions, and they should not be used as control valve.
3. With the closed valve cavities, the gate valves should not be used for viscous media conditions, low temperature medium conditions and conditions containing solid particles. For medium conditions under which the gasification of media may occur, the gate valve cavity is supposed to be equipped with the automatic pressure relief device, or the gate valves should be replaced with globe valve or butterfly valve.
4. When there is pigging requirements, full bore flanged valves or ball valves should be used instead of gate valves.
5. The gate valves' bodies should not be lined.
6. Gate valves can be used in conjunction with corrugated pipes, but stems of gate valves travel longer than the globe valves' stems do. Thus, it is better to used globe valves combined with corrugated pipes.
7. Compared with ball valves, gate valves have poor flow performance, not suitable for pressure pulsation medium conditions, high pressure oxygen conditions, medium conditions under which cavitation of media, erosion, corrosion may happen.
8. There may be residual media in the gate valve cavities when work is stopped. Thus gate valves should not be used for highly toxic and highly corrosive liquid medium conditions.
9. There will be dead zones in the grooves of gate valve seats and so gate valves are not recommended for powder transportation or medium conditions where crystallization and solidification of media may occur.
Principles of selecting globe valve
1. Although the Y-shaped globe valves reduce the flow degree as well as resistance of media, and can be used as shut-off valves in pipelines, the shortcomings of them are still obvious, which leads them not to be the first choice of main shut-off valves.
2. Although globe valves are almost free from temperature and pressure restrictions, they are not suitable for pipelines with DN250 (NPS10) and above DN250 (NPS10) because of the large closing force.
3. There is a linear proportional relationship between the globe valves' opening height and flow of media and so they are often used for shutting off the control valves' bypass or for the occasions such as water terminals and vent discharge terminals, which need more accurate control of flow.
4. The runner of globe valves is complex and easy to be eroded, and thus globe valves should not be used for medium conditions containing solid particles.
5. The runner of globe valves are flanged, which means globe valves are not recommended for pressure pulsation medium conditions, high pressure oxygen conditions and conditions with pigging requirements.
6. There are no closed valve cavities of globe valves, which makes globe valves applicable to medium conditions under which the gasification of media may happen.
7. The globe valves' bodies should not be lined.
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However, the delegation offers many practical difficulties even to those who are absolutely convinced of its necessity. Basically it is the fear of losing control. As theBedoyere Quentin says: “The patterns stored concerning the loss of control and the preference that people have their own ideas thrillingly makes difficult the delegation. It is hard to distinguish this from a wise caution. Bad past experience and higher pressures may contribute to this reluctance. But semidelegacion solution, in which the delegator retains control is the worst of two possible solutions. “It gives us some concrete ideas that help to delegate successfully: 1) Be clear what the task : Often the failures in the work of delegation shall originate in the delegator, not sure what you want to delegate.
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Weekly Horoscope: August 8–14, 2022
The universe is awe-inspiring and amazing but sometimes it can be hard to navigate, so here are some pointers on how to stay upright during some of the week’s tricky planetary turbulence.
Like Monday’s uncertain square between the moon (our emotional ruler) and Neptune (ruler of our subconscious) in gullible Pisces. It would be so easy to get sucked into someone else’s pity party now but trust us – not everything is as it seems during this hazy lunar interaction. Watch out for people who seem nice but actually have some very bad intentions.
Tuesday’s opposition between Venus (the universe’s ruler of relationships) and Pluto (the planet voted “most suspicious”) also causes its share of confusion and being the target of gossip now can be epically devastating. As your suspicions rise and close relationships are tested, having trusted sources you can rely on to help you see things clearly should be priority number one.
Thursday’s full moon in conspiracy theory-friendly Aquarius forms a T-square to Uranus (the rebellious planet) and drags serious Saturn (ruler of hard work) and “don’t mess with me” Mars into its orbit, too, producing some seriously f’ed up vibes. So, resist the urge to stay in bed by making it a “get up and fake-it-‘til-you-make-it” kinda day.
It takes all week, but we finally reach a gentle, dreamy moon-Neptune conjunction on Saturday that has you viewing the world from a much more idealistic perspective. This is your sign from the universe to let down your guard a little and get lost in a pretty daydream of how you wish things could be.
Your Zodiac Sign’s Weekly Horoscope
You prefer not to get bogged down in life’s little annoyances, Aries, but there are too many this week for even you to ignore. Your intuition spikes early on, so don’t ignore those little gut feelings. Trusting yourself in the middle of the week’s storms might be the best way for you to keep your head above water. Conspiracy theories are everywhere but you can usually talk yourself into believing that everything will be OK.
The emotions that are swirling around early in the week cause a lot more problems than you want to acknowledge or admit, Taurus, and those confusing or negative feelings follow you closely no matter how hard you try to shake them. Take a deep breath and remember that logic is your best friend. Does what you’re thinking about really make sense, or are you overacting? As an earth sign, you’re somewhat of an expert at talking yourself down from the ledge. Tap into that.
You love words, networking, connecting with other people, etc., and you’re the sign that’s most likely to be on social media late at night and then again first thing in the morning. This is why it seems like such a betrayal when you see malicious gossip about yourself, a friend or a loved one plastered all over various platforms this week. Are you going to just sit back and take it, Gemini? No, but watch out when going into defensive mode. Sometimes the more you try to clean up spilled tea, the more you actually spread it around.
Although you’d love emotional support from your squad this week, they’re probably gonna be a little too busy battling their own demons to help you out that much. But that’s OK, Cancer—you have the ability to pull up your pants and fight your own battles when necessary. Your lovely leader Luna is full late in the week, but her involvement in a trying T-square sends out some confusing messages. If you have to choose one voice to listen to, your inner one should be it. Your intuition is still coming in crystal clear despite the week’s planetary noise pollution.
Your confidence takes a hit this week, Leo, but your pride is still intact. Shrug off those little mistakes and failures that are trying to get in your head and mess with you. Deep down you know that there’s more to life than what other people think of you, right? When ugly gossip or criticism gets you down, hold your head up high, straighten your crown and remember that you’re royalty. If the universe thinks it can mess with you without you fighting back, it’s got another thing coming.
You work hard to be the voice of reason, Virgo, but this week throws you for an emotional loop. Usually, you can talk yourself out of feeling some type of way, but there might be too much going on for you to get that logical grip you’re used to hanging onto. When you feel like you can’t handle another minute of what’s going on, look for one friendly face in the crowd who can keep you steady. You can usually handle things on your own, but this week it’s important to get support wherever and whenever you can.
The balance you love so much might be tough to find this week, Libra. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try to find the coveted equilibrium you crave, but frustration can set in quickly when you do all the things you usually do and they end in failure. The full moon in your house of pleasure late in the week puts even more pressure on you to have fun despite the heavy weight of other things like work and family responsibilities. Do what you have to do to carve out some quiet time for yourself over the weekend. Your sanity depends on it.
You’ll do just about anything for anyone, but you do expect to be acknowledged – so good luck to anyone who thinks they can take advantage of you early in the week. You notice every little detail, and you never forget when someone takes your good deeds for granted. Your mood changes for the better over the weekend, which makes everyone around you happy. You might not know this about yourself, Scorpio, but when you’re in a bad mood, it’s hard for anyone else to have a good time!
As usual, you’re in a hurry to get the party started, but there are a lot of obstacles getting in the way of your good time this week. Getting bogged down in someone else’s drama certainly isn’t your idea of fun, but there are a couple of different planetary positions that point to this being an unavoidable possibility. Deal with little annoyances and irritations quickly, Sagittarius, so they don’t become more of a buzzkill than they already are. Luckily you can get out of your head over the weekend by planning ahead for some soothing, relaxing activities. Hosting or going to a pool party helps wash away the icks from early in the week!
Are you the only one here who’s trying to be responsible? Here’s the sitch this week: It’s like you’re the zookeeper and all of the animals have escaped their cages and you’re trying to get them all to go back where they’re supposed to be. Total chaos? Yes, And one of your worst nightmares. The good news is that the tasks you’re up against aren’t impossible, Capricorn, but they will take your full dedication and a lot of hard work. So, are you in? The universe is practically begging you to step up and take the job.
As an aloof air sign you usually don’t take things too personally, but it kind of seems like the universe is out to get you this week, doesn’t it?! The full moon is in your quirky sign, daring you to be your complete and totally unique self—but then when you are, you get laughed at for it. Like, what kind of cosmic sh*t is that?! You’re definitely not cool with being the universal joke of the week. But resist the urge to pass on negativity to someone else, Aquarius; laughing with someone over your shared misery is much better than throwing shade at them just to get it off of you.
You’re already feeling vulnerable, so this week’s suspicious energy can send you down the rabbit hole pretty quickly. Do you have someone you can trust completely, Pisces? Because you’re definitely going to need their input. You aren’t totally sure what you can and can’t believe, and your intuition isn’t as reliable as usual, so yeah. This isn’t a pleasant place to visit but try to remember that you’re just passing through. If you can just hold on until the weekend, your daydreams will be there to soothe you and transport you back to your happy place of denial!
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Lasik eye surgery performed by a reputable doctor became more and more common with advances in technology. As prices dropped and more people began to utilise the option, many people began to wonder whether or not they should give Lasik a try. It may be possible that you came to this article due to lack of knowledge about Lasik and its benefits. Knowing as much as you can about the procedure now should help you make an informed decision about it in the future.
Lasik performed by a qualified doctor should permanently reshape your cornea and correct your vision. Doctors invented this surgery to shape your eye to correct the incoming light in the same way your glasses or contacts did it until now. Take the time to add up the cost of wearing glasses for the rest of your life, including the price of replacing the lenses at least once a year. Contacts require new orders every few months, which can quickly add up to an even higher cost compared to glasses. In short, Lasik may be your best option to save money in the long run.
Lasik procedure performed by reputable eye specialist in Singapore ensures that you get your money back quickly by no longer needing to buy contact lenses or glasses in the future. Add up the cost of either over the last few years and you are guaranteed to find the price close to, if not more than, the price of Lasik. When you choose this option, you immediately cut off the need for continued spending for corrective lenses from that moment on.
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Year after year millions of tourists travel to Costa Rica and for good reason. From the flora and fauna to the friendly locals, these are just a few of the reasons that Costa Rica is one of the world’s top destinations for travelers and investors alike. If fact, many of these tourists become so enchanted with Costa Rica during their time here, that they find themselves considering this tropical paradise as the perfect destination for a second home or investment property.
While Costa Rica may be small in size, there is much to explore from the beautiful beaches to the lush jungles, waterfalls and volcanoes, you name it. It’s hard not to fall in love with all the beauty that surrounds you here and it’s easy to see why Costa Rica was recently named one of “The 40 Most Beautiful Countries in the World” by Conde Nast Traveler.
For those who are looking to make the fantasy, of buying a second home here, a reality, one of the first decisions is where to settle? The Central Pacific Coast remains to be one of the most popular travel destinations and solid investment opportunities and here’s why:
As suggested by the name, the Central Pacific Coast is centrally located, making it easy to access from almost anywhere in the country. Conveniently located about 90 minutes from from the Juan Santamaria International Airport, makes it attractive to travelers coming for both short and long trips. From here there are many accessible day trips available to continue exploring all that Costa Rica has to offer.
A Little Bit of Everything
The Central Pacific Coast remains popular for all types of travelers because there is something for everyone. You can experience everything from the jungle and the mountainside, to beaches and waterfalls, and everything in between. The waves on the Pacific Coast offer great surfing conditions all year round for both beginners and pros and the diverse setting of this area, brings with it, endless activities to be enjoyed including ATV rides, zip line and waterfall tours, as well as sport fishing.
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The agricultural exhibition in Eldoret, Kenya, featuring over 200 exhibitors, is scheduled from March 6th to 9th. Bathram Muthoka, CEO of ASK, anticipates President William Ruto’s presence during the opening.
The theme, ‘Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture and Trade Initiatives for Sustainable Growth,’ underscores efforts to address contemporary agricultural challenges. Susan Seron, ASK Manager in Eldoret, emphasizes the exhibition’s potential to empower farmers amidst climate change adversities.
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Once you reach Monachyle Mhor you’ll be reluctant to stir. Inspirational gastronomy, stylish design and a personal welcome make this a truly special place. It’s run by siblings Tom, Dick and Melanie who were all raised here on what started off as a farm and is now a bijou gastro-bolthole that foodies and design aficionados traipse to from afar. The 2,000-acre farm, its produce, and the Lewis’ infectious enthusiasm remain firmly at the heart of Monachyle. Within the original stone farm buildings, 16 quiet rooms come with modern design and oodles of funk factor. Or if you want to sleep even closer to nature, book one of the cabins deep in the woodland. We loved it here, and found it hard to leave.
- The food is superb - well presented without being fussy, and bursting with taste and inspiration
- The rooms are fresh and original: they'll make you smile (and sleep well)
- We love the eye-catching (and family-friendly) Cabin In The Trees, and the eco-friendly Tiny House - a really romantic bolthole
- You can't get much more remote in the UK - and yet it’s only 90 minutes' drive from Glasgow and Edinburgh
- An atmosphere that’s intimate and friendly, yet also has a touch of Kensington sophistication
- A large deposit is required on reservation
- The snug little bar is the only nightlife here, so you’ll have to provide your own
- Not really geared up for children, except tinies (families generally prefer sister property Mhor 84 Motel just down the road)
- Not for budget travellers: food and drink costs can mount up
- If you're on a romantic break, be aware that some double beds are singles zipped together
Best time to go
Our top tips
- Boutique Hotel
- 17 rooms
- Restaurant and bar
- All ages welcome
- Open all year
- Spa Treatments
- Beach Nearby
- Pet Friendly
- Disabled Access
- Car recommended
- Restaurants Nearby
- Air Conditioning
- Guest Lounge
- Bicycles Available
- Electric car charger
There are 17 rooms inside the old stone farmhouse and its outbuildings, and 3 cabins deep in the woodlands of the hotel grounds (see below).
The HOTEL ROOMS have been gradually decorated over the years, making for an eclectic mix of styles, from unfussy classic to spoil-yourself-rotten luxurious. Farmhouse Rooms tend to be more traditional and smaller, but have the best views over the loch. Courtyard Rooms are conversions of the horseshoe of outbuildings, and tend to be larger and lighter, with a distinct designer feel; the stupendous bathrooms are as good as they get. If you’re after unashamed luxury, go for one of the Feature Rooms: 3 have their own personal steam rooms - ideal for unwinding after a yomp on the fells - as well as a TV for rainier days, which you can watch from the sofa in front of your own stove.
Comrie-based interior designer Fiona Denholm has come up with some contemporary design ideas that make for plenty of pleasant surprises. Don't be surprised to find deer antlers and cobbler’s lasts in your bathroom, and windows between bedrooms and bathrooms. Ample use is made of natural materials, like wood, slate and linens, and designer furnishings sit alongside locally-foraged antiques. Everywhere you notice the attention to detail, from homemade biscuits to Laura Thomas toiletries, and a choice of pillows. The only drawbacks are that some double beds are single mattresses zipped together; and we have heard that bedrooms can be chilly on arrival (though ours was toasty).
If you fancy something a bit (or a lot) different, take a look at the WOODLAND CABINS. The most eye-catching - an award-winning design by George Clarke - is In The Trees, a stack of three tapering timber pods linked by internal stairs, with compact contemporary interiors and large windows looking out to Loch Voil. It's also family-friendly, with a double bedroom, a bunk room and a proper shower room.
Couples seeking a secluded escape might like to hole up in Tiny House, an eco-friendly, split-level timber cottage with one bedroom and a lovely woodland deck (firepit, outdoor seating and birdsong included); or in Corr, a top-spec cabin with underfloor heating (plus log-burner), a kingsize bed and a vast window to drink in the view.
- Central heating
- Cots Available
- DVD player
- In-room treatments available
The award-winning cuisine is one of the main reasons for coming. Tom's meals are stylishly presented and have heaps of flavour. His secret is the quality of his produce: as a farmer as well as a chef, Tom is unstinting in his search for the very best ingredients. Where possible, meat comes from the farm, and in the case of venison and pigeon, is locally shot. (What cannot be used in the restaurant goes into the pies sold at the Lewis’ Mhor Bread bakery in Callander). Fresh, sustainable fish comes from Scrabster every day. Vegetables, some grown on Lisa's own veg plot at the hotel, are whatever is in season.
For breakfast, enjoy a hearty cooked breakfast of Scottish smoked haddock, kippers or Cumberland sausages, with eggs from the farm. Lighter options are available for those who can’t manage the works at this time of day.
Lunch and dinner offer the best of what’s in the garden or the market. You’d be daft not to try the Orkney scallops (hand-dived of course) and oysters, and the farm’s lamb, pork and beef are superb. Unlike many other top-notch restaurants Tom takes vegetarians seriously and the veggie options easily rival the main menu (let them know before you arrive and you'll even get your own menu). There’s a serious wine list too, carefully researched by Tom who travels worldwide in search of the best suppliers. Water is from the hotel’s own spring. Choose to sit in the stylish light conservatory (great in summer for enjoying views of the loch while you dine) or the cosy panelled inner sanctum, ideal on cold winter evenings. Both are hung with family photographs of the Lewises.
If you fancy eating out, Monachyle Mhor’s sister hotel Mhor 84 is only 6 miles down the road, serving a more relaxed menu all day. And there are plenty of good options in Callander, 17 miles southeast. Options include Callander Meadows or The Barley Bree in Muthill.
- Vegetarian options
- Walking, whether it’s a stroll to the end of the glen (Monachyle means the ‘narrowing of the wetlands’), or a shin up the nearest peak, Stob Binnein (1165m). Monachyle lies in part of the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park, an area with a variety of wildlife and a fragile environment. Ask the Lewis family for hiking ideas - and order a packed lunch from reception the evening before
- For more information on walks, cycle routes and birds/wildlife in the park, visit the David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre, half a mile north of Aberfoyle on the A821. Several waymarked trails start from the Visitor Centre
- Mushroom foraging. In season, the hotel can provide you with your own forager (for a fee)
- Between May-September, bee therapy is offered. Don't worry, there's no stinging involved - a specially-designed hut with a hive attached magnifies the bees' vibrations, creating an ambient space with deeply relaxing results
- Fishing: well, this is Scotland. The hotel will arrange a day’s fishing with boat, ghillie, permit and equipment. Expect to catch trout, Arctic char, or salmon. Deer stalking can also be arranged
- Visiting Rob Roy’s grave in Balquhidder, an evocative spot. Rob Roy MacGregor, made famous in the 19th century by Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel, was the wild leader of one of Scotland’s wildest clans in the 18th century. His grave has the words ‘Despite them’ defiantly etched on its headstone - a reference to the rival MacLaren clan
- Watersports, like water skiing, kayaking and windsurfing, can be enjoyed up the road at Lochearnhead
- There are heaps of great golf courses nearby - 52 of them within a 30 mile radius to be precise. The nearest course is in Callander, 17 miles away
- Bicycle hire can be arranged by the hotel - a great way to explore the Trossachs
- Shopping. Callander has plenty to offer if you enjoy buying outdoor clothing, drinking coffee, or just wandering. Pop to nearby Aberfoyle for one of the best butchers in the UK
- Beauty treatments, massages, facials by a local therapist can be arranged in your room - subject to availability so request in advance
Activities on site or nearby include:
- Boat trips
- Cooking classes
- Horse riding
Couples with babies, or with well behaved older children, are welcome in the hotel, including in the restaurant; in-betweens might not feel so comfortable here - the cabins might be better.
Babies (0-1 years), Teens (over 12)
Family friendly accommodation:
The Cabin In The Trees is very family-friendly, with a double bedroom and a separate bunk room, plus a proper walk-in shower: perfect for an adventurous family wanting an off-grid escape.
Cots Available, Extra Beds Available, Family Rooms
Babysitting available by arrangement
Baby cots available on request (extra cost)
Remember baby and child equipment may be limited or need pre-booking
Monachyle Mhor is situated on the banks of Loch Voil, in the Trossachs National Park in the Scottish Highlands.
Those visiting from afar should fly Glasgow or Edinburgh (80km). From Glasgow, you can take the seaplane straight to Loch Voil, in front of the hotel. The hotel can arrange; or contact Loch Lomond Seaplanes. It's also possible to drive from both airports (about 90 minutes). For a list of airlines serving these airports, click the links at the bottom of the page.
From the Airport
Taxis can be arranged by the hotel, or you may prefer to hire a car (see below).
The hotel is off the M9 towards Stirling, leaving at Junction 10 along the A84 to Callander. After Strathyre, it's about 9 km (4 miles) along a road hugging Loch Voil. There's a power outlet if you need to charge your car (bring your cables). See our car rental recommendations.
You can take a train to Stirling, see Seat 61 for more details. From there a regular bus service runs from Stirling to Callander. From Callander, you'll need to take another bus, through Strathyre. Just before Lochearnhead you can be dropped off on the main road where the turn off to Monachyle is. But you'll need to do the last four miles by taxi, which the hotel can arrange.
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- Edinburgh 80.0 km EDI
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Tommy Cooper probably would have toasted his 93rd birthday today with his favourite drink.
The Welsh entertainer, who was born in Caerphilly, was adored by millions of television viewers across the country before his untimely death from a heart attack while on stage in April 1984.
A pioneer of slapstick comedy, Cooper had audiences in raptures with his "unpredictable" act, which a biographer later revealed as being meticulously planned.
Cooper honed his stage act as a stand-up comedian who peppered his magic tricks, some of which he intentionally bungled.
Legend has it that Cooper adopted his trademark fez one evening in Cairo, where he was stationed as a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards regiment of the British Army during World War Two.
Cooper, who had forgotten a pith helmet, grabbed a passing waiter's fez, which earned howling laughter from his audience.
Here we remember some of Cooper's most memorable quips.
A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I've cut your arms off".
Guy goes into the doctor's. "Doc, I've got a cricket ball stuck up my backside." How's that?" Don't you start."
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
Somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.
I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy
Name: Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper
DOB: 19 March 1921, Caerphilly, Wales
Died: 15 April 1984, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, England
Career: Cooper became a shipwright after he left school in Hythe, Hampshire, but in 1940 was called up as a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards regiment of the British Army in World War II, serving in Montgomery's Desert Rats in Egypt.
While in Egypt he got a taste of being centre stage, becoming part of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute's entertainment party.
After he left the Army, Cooper worked in theatres around the country and was known to perform 52 shows a week, honing one-liners and both successful and failed magic tricks.
Copper became one of the most recognisable acts in the world after he started starring in his own shows. He was popular with audiences for four decades, most notably through his work with London Weekend Television from 1968 to 1972 and with Thames Television from 1973 to 1980.
Death: On 15 April 1984, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show, Cooper collapsed from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers. He was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival.
I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?". He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".
You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an airplane, and everyone joins in.
Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.
I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the steaks are too high."
I knocked at my friend's door and his wife answered the door. I said "Is Jim in?".
She didn't reply, just stood there looking at me. So I asked again. Just then a woman appeared at his wife's elbow. "Sorry love" she said "We buried him last Thursday".
"He didn't say anything about a pot of yellow paint before he went, did he?"
My mother was always pulling my leg, that's why one is six inches longer than the other.
Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other "Your round." The other one says "So are you, you fat bas***d!"
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Idlebeck British Shorthairs are pleased to welcome you to their world!
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This site is still a work in progress and there are a number of improvements and additions
which we hope to undertake over the next few months.
Jazz (Idlebeck Jazz Singer) - her two boys are ready to leave, with one still available due to a booking cancellation
Mitzi (Ch. Idlebeck Intermezzo) - four gorgeous babies will be ready to leave early next month, with only one girl still available
For further details visit our Nursery page.
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Although the basic construction of our site is now complete,
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The global economy is currently expanding at a moderate pace, albeit with considerable differences in momentum across countries. The economy in the United States is still growing at robust rates, whereas the euro area is in a phase of stagnation; in the United Kingdom and Japan, production even declined noticeably in the second half of 2023. While the growth differentials are likely to narrow over the forecast horizon, a strong upturn is not in sight: Europe and Japan is gradually picking up as the dampening effects of the inflation shock have run their cause but, at the same time, the expansion in the United States is losing momentum as fiscal stimuli fade. Also, economic activity in China is likely to expand only modestly going forward due to structural problems, and growth will be noticeably weaker on average in 2024 than in the previous year. This is the most important reason why global output growth on a purchasing power parity basis will be somewhat lower at 2.8 percent than in 2023 (3.1percent). For the coming year, we expect an acceleration of growth to 3.1 percent again. Our forecast remains unchanged for 2024 from our December forecast and has been revised marginally – by 0.1 percentage point – downwards for 2025. Although unemployment in the advanced economies will increase slightly over the next quarters, it will remain at a historically low level. Inflation has fallen significantly compared to the peak at the end of 2022, but has only fallen slightly in recent months. The rise in prices for services in particular is proving to be stubborn, meaning that inflation rates are not expected to fall sustainably close to the target levels again until 2025. Risks for the global economy are primarily of geopolitical nature and are reinforced by the uncertainties surrounding the US presidential election. An escalation of trade conflicts, for example, would have a negative impact on global economic activity. | <urn:uuid:ff9d7cf2-893f-4140-a108-b95af3d59ae5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/world-economy-in-spring-2024-momentum-remains-subdued-32632/ | 2024-04-17T08:57:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.952437 | 366 |
A Decade Out From The Mortgage Crisis, Former Homeowners Still Grasp For Stability
Before the mortgage crisis, real estate seemed like a sure bet. Pretty much anyone could buy a house: no money down, thousands of square feet, second and third vacation homes were not out of the question. Then the bubble burst.
Homeowners across the U.S. confronted the reality that their houses were worth a fraction of what they had paid for them. Now, a decade later, even though the recession is over, more than 6 million homeowners are still upside down on their mortgages.
This week on For the Record, we hear the stories of two people who lost their homes in the mortgage crisis and how they're coping today.
Brian Burns, Las Vegas
For 26 years, Brian Burns watched Vegas grow. He saw the desert dirt roads transformed by construction projects. Land was available and cheap. By 2004, housing prices soared.
"The builders couldn't keep up with the demand," he says. "Land prices went through the roof."
Burns and his then wife had bought into the dream. They lived in a huge house he estimates was 3,500 square feet. "There were parts of the house you never even saw. That's how big it was," he says.
When a Realtor friend persuaded him to sell, he was blown away by the profit he turned.
"That house that I bought for $250,000, my friend sold for $645,000 three years later," he says. "I had never had remotely that much money in my life. Probably never had more than $10,000 to $15,000 in the bank before. And I took $40 out one time and I showed my friend my ATM receipt and it said $228,000 balance. And we just looked at each other and laughed, it was ridiculous. I didn't know what to do with it."
He decided to keep it in the bank and buy another, smaller house in a brand-new development in the town of Henderson, Nev. Sure, the tan, stucco tract-style housing didn't have a whole lot of charm, but Burns didn't care. He persuaded some of his friends to buy other houses in the neighborhood. He had cash in the bank, excellent credit, and he put no money down.
Before we return to the second half of Brian's story, let's bring in a second voice.
Guillermo Galindo, Medford, Mass.
In 2005, Guillermo Galindo and his wife bought their house in Revere, Mass., for $450,000. They put about 5 percent down and ended up with a manageable monthly mortgage payment of about $2,000.
He worked delivering medical supplies, and they got monthly payments from a family who rented a unit on the second floor. Galindo and his wife lived there for a few years with their baby daughter, and life felt pretty stable.
But that security began to crumble in 2008 when his employer started cutting his hours. The interest rate on his adjustable mortgage started creeping up. Then, he lost income from his second-floor tenants.
"The people upstairs, to top it off, this girl had a baby and then she had problems with her husband," Galindo says.
Eventually, the young woman's husband abandoned her and the baby.
"At the end she was just was left alone and she stopped paying rent," he says.
He wouldn't kick her out, but that meant Galindo was now really struggling to make his mortgage payments. Around the same time, he found out that his home had lost about 50 percent of its value, so he got in touch with his bank hoping to work out a deal.
"They asked for more papers; I send them all. It was back and forth, back and forth, until they said they couldn't help me, that the price was that. And they couldn't do anything," he says.
Across the country in Las Vegas, Brian Burns had also seen the value of his home plummet.
"I think everybody's dream, when you are a normal person — not super rich, not super poor — is that your home is kind of your biggest asset," Burns says. "That you feel like, 'I'm going to play by the rules, I'm going to pay my mortgage, it's just going to continue to increase in value.' Maybe not by leaps and bounds, but by no means should it be worth a third of what you paid for it. And it started to scare everybody."
He found out that the house he bought for $320,000 was now worth only $140,000.
At the same time, his work as a graphic designer was drying up. Eventually, he chose to stop paying his mortgage. He didn't feel good about it.
"I wasn't raised that way to not honor your obligations, and do the right thing and pay your bills on time," he says. "My credit score was perfect. In fact, when I bought that little house, the guy said, 'We're willing to give you no down because you have one of the best. I've been doing this for 20 years and your credit score is 850 points or something like that and I've never seen one that high.' "
He could have used his savings to keep paying his mortgage payments, but he thought that was a bad idea.
"The analogy I use back then is, I'm not going to pay Mercedes prices for a Kia. Why would I pay $320,000 for a house that's never going to be worth that?"
The decision destroyed Burns' credit. He let the bank take his house and he moved to Oregon to start over again.
Meanwhile, Guillermo Galindo was in a different situation because he didn't want to leave. His life savings were wrapped up in this house, and that's where he wanted to raise his daughter.
"I thought I was going to pass [the house] on to my daughter," he says. "I thought it was going to be something that would last for my remaining life."
He kept talking with the bank, trying to figure out how to stay. Eventually they sent him a letter saying they were foreclosing. He fought it for another five months and finally said, fine, take it.
They gave him $3,000 and he handed over the keys.
"It was very depressing for me," Galindo recalls. "I was trying to show my best face to my wife and my daughter. I remember we had a dog because that was one of the things that I promised my daughter if we had our own house ... And it was really, really, really heartbreaking for me to find the words to tell my little one, was probably 3 years by then, that we were going to have to get rid of the dog. So, believe it or not, I wasn't even thinking on anything else but that how we were going to tell her that her dog was going to have to go."
Today, Brian Burns is back in Las Vegas, where he rents an apartment with his fiancée. They feel really gun-shy about buying anything, mainly because it doesn't seem like the housing crisis is over in Vegas. Roughly 20 percent of homeowners are still underwater there, and it doesn't look like a recovery.
"I drive up into suburbia, and there are streets still of empty houses. No curtains, no nothing, weeds in the yard," Burns says. "There are still a lot of empty houses in this town."
Over in Medford, Mass., Guillermo Galindo also rents an apartment. There are two main rooms — one where Guillermo and his wife sleep, the other they use as a day care facility. When all the children leave at 6 p.m., Guillermo's now 12-year-old daughter converts it into her bedroom.
"My daughter is still thinking about having a house, and the first thing she's going to do is to get a dog," he says. "I feel very proud of her. She's getting high honors. She's been adapting really good."
Galindo's credit rating is still in the tank because of the foreclosure. And they don't have any money for a down payment, so buying another house is not an option right now, and might not be for a long time.
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Real Desktop is a free desktop application for windows that provides you 3D virtual desktop. It gives a new and stylish looking virtual desktop which makes desktop use more fun. With this 3D virtual desktop, you are provided a room that contains all your desktop items. And it is not limited to a single room only, you can easily create your own room and can customize it with new designs, decorations, and more. More importantly, there is camera available for room(s) which you can adjust just like the way you want. Customizing camera angle of any room is so easy on this Real Desktop.
Unlike other virtual desktops, it provides you games to play for free. Apart from this, the best feature available in Real Desktop is that you can easily download new designs and decorations or can even submit your own created themes to others. This virtual desktop gives you all the features that you will find on other virtual desktops. But what makes it special is its pretty interface and easy to download stuff. Not even a single penny is needed for getting extra stuff.
That’s why Real Desktop is quite useful and good to use desktop application. Have a look at its key features.
Key Features of Real Desktop:
- Experience a whole new and impressive virtual desktop in 3D view.
- Create own designs and decorations for enhancing your room.
- Customize room according to your way or simply create a new one.
- Get more designs and decorations online for free.
- Submit your own created themes (if you wish).
- Play available games right on your virtual desktop.
- User friendly interface and available free for Windows.
How To Use This 3D Virtual Desktop?
For using it, you need to download it only. You will find download link at the download part of this article. When you will start working on its interface. You will find a 3D room that will contain all your desktop items in form of tiles. This room is fully customizable, you can drag-n-drop any desktop item easily or can place any desired item to hang it on the wall. You need to select an item, and then right-click on wall that will let you to pin that item to wall.
The drawback of this virtual desktop is that you can’t sort item by using default right-click context menu option. You need to place and sort items manually for your ease. However, other stuff are quite useful and beneficial in this virtual desktop. Moreover, using this Real Desktop is quite easy as it provides quick guide about how to grab a file, how to lift a file, pile tile(s), pin on wall, put in folder etc. You can access this quick guide anytime from community option.
For using more functions including community, you need to move your mouse to the upper middle part of this Real Desktop. This action will provide you other functions. Lets have a look at these functions.
Useful Functions That You Can Use:
- Room: For accessing other rooms (if created by you) and creating or deleting rooms, you will need this option.
- Camera: To change the angle of room, you need to access Camera option.
- Design & Decoration: You can access any available design and can edit it too for enhancing your room. Just like this, you can decorate your room using Decoration option. For getting more design and decorations, you need to click on Get more option present in both of these functions. You can get designs and decorations (online) provided by Real Desktop community or by users for free. Just you need to download and install them.
- Games: Three games are available there for you i.e. Basketball, Goal wall shooting, and Tic Tac Toe. But for playing Basketball and Goal wall shooting, you have to download and install them first.
Download and Installation:
You won’t find any difficulty for downloading and installing this virtual desktop. Simply go through this link to download Real Desktop. It will take a few seconds to complete the download as it is very lightweight. Once downloaded, install it on your computer. And finally, open it from desktop shortcut. That’s it, you will find a completely new and enhanced virtual desktop in front of you.
Note: This free version of Real Desktop is limited to few benefits. For example, you can use only 8 decorations at same time while using this free version. So if you want to upgrade to paid version, then it’s completely your choice. Otherwise, there is as such no problem for using this free version.
Real Desktop in simple saying, is one of the best virtual desktop application that fully transforms your desktop into a beautiful desktop. Use it for free.
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Immigration attorneys are in an uproar because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is levying fines on illegal aliens who have deportation orders.
A more reasonable reaction: Why wasn’t this tried years ago?
Roughly a half-million illegal aliens in the U.S. had outstanding deportation orders in 2018 and were classified as fugitives, according to ICE. The Immigration and Nationality Act grants ICE the authority to impose civil fines on illegally present aliens who have been ordered removed or failed to voluntarily depart.
One headline-grabbing ICE notice went to a fugitive holed up in a “sanctuary church” in Ohio. The June 25 letter informed Edith Espinal Moreno of the agency’s intention to fine her $497,777. An immigration judge had ordered Espinal, 42, removed from the country two years ago.
Rosa Ortez Cruz — another church-dwelling, fugitive — received a notice that ICE intends to fine her $314,007 for having “connived or conspired” to avoid deportation.
Immigration attorneys and their dodgy clients could afford to wait out the government before President Donald Trump entered office. “Most were spared deportation under the Obama administration because they had U.S.-born children or no criminal records,” the Washington Post observed.
Now, with fines running as much as $800 per day, the cost of flouting deportation orders is getting serious. Federal authorities started assessing penalties in December, and ICE is right to use every legal tool at its disposal.
In theory, monetary threats are an incentive for illegally present aliens to clear out of the country. Yet it’s unclear how the administration will enforce collection from elusive, no-account migrants. ICE has not disclosed if any fines have actually been paid.
Noting indigent cases like Espinal and Ortez, we wouldn’t be shocked to see more than a few demand letters bouncing back to ICE, stamped “Return to Sender.”
Still, the primary and ultimate goal remains: to finally remove those 500,000 deportable fugitives, whether they pay a fine or not.
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Are you on the lookout for a new love, or do you already have your eye on a certain magical someone?
Maybe you are trying out some new flirtations with your long-term partner, or you’re just trying to make someone laugh. Whatever it is, you will find something you can use among these Harry Potter pick-up lines.
We’ve got funny, cheeky, kind of sweet, and absolutely cringeworthy Harry Potter pick-up lines to choose from. We don’t have much in the way of dirty Harry Potter pick-up lines here because honestly, how many variations of “Is that a wand in your pocket or…” can one person type?
Speaking of wands - check out these fire-shooting wands from Incendio!
We don’t want to encourage anyone to go Slytherin off anywhere, so we left that out also!
Let’s start with some delicious sugary sweet Harry Potter pick-up lines that sound like they’ve come straight from Honeydukes.
Sweet Harry Potter Pick-up Lines
Everyone just loves a sweetie, don’t they? The wizarding world has such an amazing array of magical treats, like Chocolate Frogs with their collectible magical moving pictures, and Tooth flossing Stringmints, perfect for keeping your mouth fresh on a first date!
These sugary sweet Harry Potter pick-up lines would soften the heart of the dark lord himself if he had one. Try one out on your crush, and make their day a little brighter.
Harry Potter bought one of everything from the Honeydukes Express, but if you were on that trolley I would pick only you.
If you were a Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean, you’d be honey flavor because you’re so sweet.
You’re so sweet you belong in the Honeydukes stockroom.
You’re like a Chocolate Frog. Smooth, sweet, and full of bounce!
Have you been eating Exploding Bonbons, because you are the bomb!
Are you a Fizzing Whizzbee, because you’re making me float on air.
Playing the Game of Love With Quidditch Pick-up Lines
In his first year at Hogwarts, after his first time on a broomstick, Harry Potter was made the seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
This made him the youngest seeker in a century. Harry loved to play Quidditch, and the pitch was a place where a lot of pivotal moments in the story happened, as was the Quidditch World Cup when Harry went with the Weasley family.
Quidditch is the most popular sport in the wizarding world and was a huge part of Harry’s life at Hogwarts, so these Quidditch-themed Harry Potter pick-up lines could help you seek out your chosen one, if they’re a fan of the series.
You must be a Bludger because you knock me out.
Are you a Golden Snitch? Because you’re by far the greatest catch here.
You can call me Oliver Wood because I’m a keeper!
Are you Oliver Wood? Because you look like a keeper.
You must be a Golden Snitch because I’ve been seeking you my whole life.
You must be a Nimbus 2000 because you’re sweeping me off my feet.
Are you a Nimbus 2000? Because I think you could take me on a real crazy ride.
Are you a Quaffle? Because you’re about to score.
Brew up Some Romance With These Potion Pick-up Lines
Potions are a major part of the Harry Potter series, with Polyjuice Potion and Felix Felicis playing important parts in the storyline, and Potions Class with Professor Snape being a recurring pain in young Harry’s neck.
Snape was thought to resent being the potions master, and it was rumoured that he asked for the Defence Against the Dark Arts post every year but never got the job.
Lily Potter’s long-time admirer was Severus Snape, who later became Harry’s potions master at Hogwarts.
Snape never won Lily’s heart and always hated Harry’s father as a result. But if young Severus had tried one of these cheeky pick-up lines on Lily, she wouldn’t have looked twice at James, and we might have been reading a very different story indeed.
If you’re a Snape fan, you can buy his fire-shooting wand here!
No, you didn’t take a love potion. I'm just this charming.
You’re like a sip of Veritaserum, I’ll tell you anything you want to know – just ask!
Have you had some Felix Felicis? I think you’re about to get lucky.
Learn the Language of Love With These Hogwarts Lessons Pick-up Lines
As well as potions with Snape, Hogwarts students have lessons in transfiguration, astronomy, herbology, charms, and lots more magical subjects. Harry’s favorite class was Defence Against the Dark Arts.
He was extremely good at the subject, despite the class having a different professor every year, Barty Crouch disguised as Mad Eye Moody, Gilderoy Lockhart, and Dolores Umbridge, to name just a few
These Harry Potter pick-up lines have a Hogwarts lessons theme running through them, try them out on a nice witch or wizard today!
I think I’m getting pretty good at Divination – I see you and me together for a long long time!
Look at these tea leaves. The way I’m reading them, you have a date with me very soon!
Hey, did you go to Hogwarts? I thought there was something magical about you…
I’ve studied Charms with Professor Flitwick but nothing could have prepared me for how charming you are.
We may not be in Professor Flitwick’s class right now, but you sure are charming!
I’m top of my class in Transfiguration. That means I can be anything you want me to be.
I want you more than Snape wanted to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.
L-O-V-E Spells Love
Love is magic, and magic is all about spells, so it makes perfect sense that a pick-up line that references a spell in the magical world of Harry Potter will bring some love into your life… Right?
There is a spell for almost everything in the magical world of Harry Potter, and there seems to be an extremely complimentary pick-up line for almost every spell. Try one out, and have a magical time!
You must have me under the Imperius curse because I can not resist you.
When I said “Accio hottie,” I didn’t expect it to work!
You don't need to say "Incendio" to light my fire.
I’m ready to make an Unbreakable Vow with you!
You don't have to cast Lumos to light up my world.
What do you say we disapparate together to somewhere a little quieter?
I must need Occlumency because I can't get you out of my thoughts.
Are you using the Confundus Charm, or are you naturally mind-blowing?
Did you use Relashio? 'Because I’m feeling sparks between us.
Did you survive the Avada Kedavra curse? Because you're drop-dead gorgeous.
Did you just stupefy me, or are you naturally that stunning?
Your smile is like Expelliarmus. Simple but disarming.
You’re so hot, Aguamenti couldn’t put you out.
You’re definitely not a muggle, because you cast a spell on me.
Did you just cast the Descendo spell? Because I just fell for you.
Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I Apparate by again?
You don't need Alohomora to unlock my heart.
If You Don't Like Harry Potter Pick-up Lines, There is Something Sirius-ly Ron With You!
The Chosen One, Weasley, Dumbledore, Lovegood, Sirius - I mean, seriously. These names deserve to be made puns.
If you’re Sirius about finding love, put a smile on someone's face today with one of these funny Harry Potter pick-up lines.
Are you the headmaster of a magical wizarding school? Because I a-Dumbledore you!
I may not be the boy who lived, but I can still be your chosen one.
Harry Potter may be the Boy Who Lived, but you’re my chosen one.
Just call me Ginny Weasley, because you’re my chosen one.
I am SIRIUS-ly into you.
My name might not be Luna, but I know how to Lovegood.
Is your name Firenze? Because you're the centaur of my universe.
Don’t worry, I’m not Gilderoy Lockhart. I’ve got the substance to back up my dashing good looks and charm.
Mind if I Weasley my way into your heart?
Even a Dark Wizard Deserves Love
They say Voldemort was quite a handsome young man before he allowed his visage to be warped by the growing evil in his soul. I wonder if anyone ever tried a pick-up line on him, in his youth. If you’re into the dark lord, you'll find his fire-shooting Incendio wand here.
Here are some Harry Potter pick-up lines you can try if you find yourself attracted to the type of boy or girl that your parents would never approve of.
I’m not trying to impress you, but I say Voldemort out loud.
Are you a Dementor? 'Cause if you kissed me, I'd never recover.
Are you a Death Eater? Because Azka-damn!
If you were a Dementor, I’d break into Azkaban just to get your kiss.
Are you a Horcrux? Because I feel like you’ve got a piece of my soul.
Are you The Monster Book of Monsters? You’re wild, but I think if I give you a back rub, you might calm down.
There are some amazing animal characters in the Harry Potter world. Harry’s owl Hedwig is a wonderful companion to him, and Hagrid’s beautiful boarhound, Fang, is a loyal friend to the half-giant. There is Fawkes, Dumbledore’s phoenix, who assists Harry in defeating the basilisk, and Hermione’s very smart cat, Crookshanks, is instrumental in the discovery of Peter Pettigrew and his years-long disguise.
If you are an animal lover, you’ll want to find another animal lover to spend your life with. See how your chosen one reacts to these animalistic Harry Potter pick-up lines.
If I were an animagus, I’d transform into your love bug.
I hear you’re looking for a smart and loyal bird. Call me Hedwig.
Are you a dying phoenix? Because you are on fire!
I'm no Animagus, but sometimes I can be a real animal.
What Does Your Heart Desire?
The Mirror of Erised appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). Harry discovered the mirror while exploring Hogwarts in the dead of night under his invisibility cloak. The Mirror of Erised shows a person their deepest desires, and when Harry Potter looked into the mirror he saw his parents alive. When he showed his friend Ron Weasley the mirror, Ron saw himself as captain of the Quidditch team and as head boy.
It’s no wonder then, that a mirror that shows a person their heart's desire is the subject of a few cheesy pick-up lines.
If I were to look into the Mirror of Erised, I’d see the two of us together.
When I look into the Mirror of Erised, I see you giving me your number.
I don't need the Mirror of Erised to know that you're everything I desire.
The Magic of Love
There’s someone out there for everyone. Even Draco Malfoy managed to find a partner, despite all that sneering he does. If he can find someone, with that entitled attitude of his, anyone can. Here are some more of our magical pick-up lines, we saved the best for last.
I wish I had a Pensieve so I could save all the good memories of us in it.
(If your partner is a Harry Potter fan, this line will melt their heart.)
I just caught sight of you and thought you must be a Hogwarts student. You were able to Raven-Claw your way into my heart so quickly.
Get out of my dreams, and into my enchanted flying Ford Anglia.
I bought a pair of Vanishing Cabinets. I set one up in my bedroom, just tell me where to put the other.
(You might wish you had a time-turner if that line doesn’t work out.)
I brought my invisibility cloak along, I was hoping to visit your restricted section tonight.
(People say some absolutely crazy things when they are looking for love, don’t they?)
Are you sure you’re a muggle? Because you look magical.
Are we in the Room of Requirement? Because you're exactly what I've been searching for.
Would you like to manage some mischief together? I solemnly swear we’ll be up to no good.
(A little marauders map humor might help you bag your best friend for life.)
I used to climb up to the Astronomy Tower to see the stars, but now I can just look into your eyes…
You may be a muggle, but that body is magical.
Platform nine and three-quarters this way, if you want to board this train.
Take me to St. Mungo’s, you make me seriously lovesick.
Are you a Hogwarts acceptance letter? Because I've been waiting for you all my life.
I just tried the sorting hat on and it said I belong in your house.
Meet me at the Three Broomsticks, so I can butter you up with a Butterbeer.
Did you slip some Firewhiskey into my drink, or is it just you making me hotter?
Are you a shifting Hogwarts staircase? Because you’re making the earth move under my feet.
Is this the Hogwarts Express? Because it feels like you and I are headed somewhere magical.
Free a house elf! Take off your clothes!
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Q. First film as a director, how daunting was it, and
how much of a job that you couldn't refuse?
A. Daunting... the only daunting thing was making the
decision to direct, that did scare me a little, thinking am I
ready to bare myself to the world? But once I made the decision,
I enjoyed every day of it.
But it was something that Guy [Ritchie] was meant to do, and when
he decided not to direct it, just the idea of handing it over
to somebody else didn't really add up in my mind. And I thought,
they'd probably screw it up, so I'd rather screw it up myself.
Q. Has the film turned out better than even you would
have dared hope?
A. It's the movie I set out to make; it's the positive
reaction that's surprised me. You never know what people are going
to like and how people are going to react to what you do, and
it's more nervous when you're proud of something and you know
it works in your mind. So it makes you more vulnerable to then
listen to people's opinons, because you just hope that they will
feel the same way.
Q. We have a certain expectation, in stylistc terms,
of British gangster films which you, as a producer, were partly
responsible for creating. As a director, this film is a very,
very stylish film, with shades of Norman Jewison. Did you try
and go in for a more American feel, or try not to be Lock, Stock...?
A. I was going for a more cinematic feel and I think
people associate that with American, which isn't the case. I mean,
every country can do movies which fill the screen, but Americans
do it more often.
Q. Were there films that you were mentally referencing,
such as The Thomas Crown Affair maybe?
A. No, The Thomas Crown Affair wasn't... I mean my film
knowledge is pretty lame, so it wouldn't be Norman Jewison, because
I'm sure he's good, but he was no influence whatsoever on me.
Michael Mann, De Palma... visually, he moves the camera in a very,
very beautiful manner, and I think Mann makes sure of the lighting;
I mean, LA is probably one of the ugliest cities in the world,
and Heat made LA look beautiful. So I thought we should be able
to beat the look of Heat, because we've got London, and it's such
a beautiful city, so let's photograph it in a way that it deserves.
So stylistically, they were the two biggest influences, and I
also think they understood the balance between style over content,
whereas I think other film-makers go more for being stylish and
forget to tell the story first and then underpin it.
Q. Did you ration the violence? Did you hold back? How
did you handle it?
A. I wanted the violence to be realistic. I think Lock
Stock and Snatch did a kind of cartoon aspect to it, where it
was there but it was, dare I say it, fun. I wanted this to have
more of a conscience, and for it to fit in with the movie and
again be part of the story, not a talking point. Obviously it
is, but I don't think this is the sort of film that kids will
watch thinking 'oh, violence is cool, let's get an iron on a chest'
- at least I hope that doesn't happen - but I think other films
glamourise it in a way which does maybe bring about bad reactions
or results. It was a conscious decision not to make a gory film,
and we've got the 15 certificate as well, which is a new feeling
Q. What was it in Daniel's work that suggested him for
DANIEL: You saw a cut-out of me, didn't you?
A. No, it was your suit. No, I went to watch
Road to Perdition in LA, in this new cinema, and there was a mannequin
of Daniel and the suit he wore in it. Actually, the thing that
I really saw Daniel in was a short film he did, which I can't
remember the name of right now, about four years ago, and I liked
the idea of him for Snatch. But Daniel's the sort of actor, I've
never seen him give a bad performance, which, as a director, is
quite a promising start.
And Daniel had... it's a very brave actor who is prepared to do
what looks like nothing on screen. There are times when everyone
else is being quite colourful around you, and there are some actors
who think screw this and start showing off, and Daniel didn't
- well not on camera. And that worked. So when I met Daniel, I
just knew he would be perfect for the role. It's an instinctive
thing, when you meet someone, I've always known, as a director
and producer, probably within the first 30 seconds of meeting
someone, whether they have got the part. Normally, when you get
them to read, it's just a confirmation, and Daniel didn't even
have to read for it.
Q. You mentioned that filming
in London was a key part of the filming process, but how easy
was it to film in? Did you have to battle red tape?
A. You do, but it's definitely easier than it was....
I mean, I think it was American Werewolf in London that screwed
it for everyone and landed quite a few people in Piccadilly Circus,
and then the next thing there were buses and the whole thing got
shut down for 24 hours. But I think it's got much easier. We did
have problems, we were going to film the shooting scene, with
Lucky, in Primrose Hill, but we couldn't get permission to film
there, and thank God, because when I saw Greenwich, I thought,
well, I wouldn't want to go to Primrose Hill. We found it pretty
easy. Some councils are better than others, but we chose most
of our locations in film-friendly council areas.
Q. What movies have influence you creatively?
A. The two biggest things, which really got it kick-started,
were Star Wars and then Raiders of the Lost Ark, which confirmed
that this is what I wanted to do as a career. I just like being
entertained when I go to the cinema; give me a big thing of popcorn
and a Coca-Cola and I'm happy, so long as I'm not... I mean Daniel
makes a lot of films which, quite frankly, I don't see. I haven't
seen The Mother, which I'm sure is excellent, but I did see Tomb
Raider, which probably sums me up. So anything that's entertaining
and good, but I obviously love, as I say, De Palma and Mann, Spielberg,
Lucas, Ridley Scott, Guy, obviously. People go to the cinema to
be entertained and to escape, and that's what I want to carry
on trying to do.
Q. Women don't feature very strongly in your films, Matthew,
and I wondered why that was?
A. We're all mysoginists! Hollywood has the knack of...
you could be on a submarine and suddenly they'll figure out a
way of getting a woman onto it, when there apparently aren't any!
In the world that we depict, I mean we've got girls in this one,
at least, Sasha and Tammy, so that's two more than usual.
If there's a role for a girl, I'll put them in, but I refuse to
create... I mean, in Lock, Stock we did have a 25-minute character
we cut out, which was a girl, and we put it in purely because
Hollywood was saying 'you need a love interest'. And then luckily,
we had final cut, and I said to Guy this does not work, it's not
what this movie is about, and that's why I think the film has
done well, because we've always tried to stay true to the subject
Q. In the wake of Lock, Stock and Snatch, have you ever
had any feedback from the fraternity you're depicting?
A. No. I wouldn't want it. Guy probably did, but that's
not my world.
Q. Was it very difficult to get hold of Colm Meaney for
the role, considering he seems to be one of the busiest actors
working today? Or was it written specifically with him in mind?
A. Getting Colm, the hardest thing to get any actor is
not usually getting past their work schedule, but getting past
their agent. Once we finally convinced the agent to give him the
script, it worked out very quickly. It's one of those scripts
when people read it, they responded well. But the reason they
were holding back, probably, was down to me. If I'd called as
a producer, they would have passed it on straight away, probably,
but as a director, it suddenly became much more of a risky proposition.
Agents don't like to put any risky decisions, in case they lose
their client as a result.
Q. Are you going to carry on directing?
A. Yes, I do want to carry on directing. I'm hoping this
film will be successful enough to warrant that, and I thoroughly
enjoyed it. It's a stepping stone in terms of the films I want
to make, which are big action proper movies, in my mind. So I
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DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Director's commentary; Two short films
by Peter Mullan: 'Fridge' and 'Close'; Cast auditions footage;
Audio descriptive track; Trailer.
AT the start of Peter Mullans controversial, but award-winning,
The Magdalene Sisters, a woman is raped at a wedding by her cousin.
But far from being supported by her family in the aftermath of
the attack, she is shunned and sent away to the refuge
of the Catholic Church in a bid to find repentance.
The same treatment is dealt out to a young mother, who has given
birth out of wedlock, and to a pretty young temptress, merely
because it is felt that her blossoming good looks may undermine
All are sent to one of The Magdalene Asylums run by the Sisters
of Mercy on behalf of the Catholic Church, where they are forced
to work 364 days a year, unpaid, half-starved, beaten and humiliated.
Their sentence was indefinite and was largely dependent on whether
they were rescued by family members or successful in their bid
Thousands of women lived and died there, and the last laundry
closed in 1996.
Mullans film, a Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival
2002, has been condemned by the Vatican Church, which described
its narrative as clearly false, but has won many friends
in film circles for its superb direction and quality of performances.
Its director claims the film is based on true events
and challenged the Vatican to face up to its past and the cruelty
dished out by nuns in Irish asylums, stating that he was not imaginative
enough to dream up such scandals.
But whatever the debate surrounding the work, there is no denying
the films power, or its emotional intensity, or the fact
that it has succeeded in highlighting the plight of countless
young women who were sent to work in the Magdalene laundries.
Anne-Marie Duff, Dorothy Duffy and Nora-Jane Noone star as the
three women in question, who are sent to an asylum presided over
by Geraldine McEwans formidable Sister Bridget, a profits-fixated
nun who is not afraid to use intimidation to bully her women into
The ensuing couple of hours chronicles their attempts to come
to terms with their situation, make friends with those around
them and, eventually, to escape - all the while mindful of the
suffering they will endure should they fail to adhere to the rules,
or be caught.
And it is tough stuff indeed, fuelled by some excellent performances,
and Mullans tight direction, which lends an air of trepidation
to proceedings, whenever the women step out of line.
The veteran McEwan, especially, leaves a lasting impression as
the chilling Sister Bridget, a strict disciplinarian, prone to
moments of self-doubt, whose outwardly quiet demeanour belies
the worst kind of monster, while the likes of Duff and Noone do
a fine job in depicting the hopelessness of their situation.
Noone, in particular, is on terrific form as the feisty former
temptress, whose happy-go-lucky spirit quickly becomes quashed
by the climate of fear created by the nuns, while audiences are
likely to find themselves cheering along when she mounts a final
bid for freedom.
Yet Mullans film is far more than just a Shawshank Redemption-style
countdown to a feelgood escape, given that it sets out to expose
the hitherto forgotten suffering endured by thousands of women
for too long. It is an uncompromising, and occasionally harrowing,
insight into a social injustice which succeeds through its raw
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DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: None currently stated
THE Jennifer Lopez self-delusion story continues unabated in
Maid In Manhattan, a New York-based fairytale that feels spectacularly
misjudged from the start.
First off, we have 'Jenny from the Block' once again harking
on about her roots, delivering speech after tireless speech about
life in the projects and what it means to live there. Such misplaced
sentiment might not seem so hypocritical if she avoided the diva
indulgences that have become something of a hallmark.
And then we have the object of her affections, Ralph Fiennes,
a dashing British actor hopelessly miscast in a film which sets
out to repeat the winning formula of classic romances such as
Roman Holiday or Pretty Woman, only to fall flat on its face at
Lopez stars as feisty hotel maid, Marisa Ventura, a single mother
with an eye on promotion, who uses her Bronx know-how to winning
effect with her colleagues in Manhattan, until a misunderstanding
prompts her to take a stroll with Fiennes' Republican candidate,
Christopher Marshall, a VIP guest of the hotel and playboy charmer,
with whom she becomes smitten.
Only trouble is, Marshall believes Marisa to be a guest of the
hotel (not the maid) and sets about wooing her, while trying to
play down the attentions of the media and launch a winning campaign
for the US Senate. Cue all manner of cat-and-mouse games, romantic
'time-outs' and the inevitable slushy finale.
Played correctly, such mainstream romantic fare can sweep audiences
along like a Prince Charming whisking Cinderella off to the ball,
yet Maid in Manhattan possesses neither the panache nor the pairing
to seduce its viewers.
The movie certainly follows the correct formula, but feels staged
and too false to carry it off throughout, while principle among
the problems is the central pairing, with both Fiennes and Lopez
failing to generate any chemistry whatsoever, or even seeming
the slightest bit believable.
Lopez, especially, presents a tired romantic lead, one who conforms
to every cliche, in between delivering the aforementioned life
lessons to anyone who cares to listen, while Fiennes' love-struck
charmer seems content merely to play second fiddle, which is a
shame, given that he is the more interesting of the characters.
Yet the movie consistently squanders the talents of a fairly
impressive cast (including Bob Hoskins, Stanley Tucci and Six
Feet Under's Frances Conroy), and comes across as little more
than a star-vehicle for the self-obsessed Lopez.
Director, Wayne Wang (of The Joy Luck Club and The Centre of
the World fame), does a fairly good job of making New York look
good, but even his direction feels heavily-reliant on following
Hollywood convention, offering nothing new along the way to its
This is, in the final analysis, a one-star hotel of a movie masquerading
as a five-star showpiece. But don't be fooled by its service,
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01 September 2023
Infineum's unwavering commitment to both local communities and the environment shines through in our recent beach clean-up at Pasir Ris Park. Our team in Singapore recently had a fulfilling morning litter picking to restore the beauty of the beach.
Inspired by “Clear Shores, Clean Waters for Singapore” campaign that was organised by the Singapore Chemical Industry Council (SCIC) in 2019, Infineum Singapore has taken the initiative to set up its own beach clean-up since 2022 as a commitment to environmental protection. This year, a total of 51 colleagues from Plant and Business Technology Centre Singapore joined hands to make this ongoing sustainability initiative an impactful one.
Despite the hot and dry weather, our colleagues spent an hour on the beach that stretches over 1.5km to pick up trash. Equipped with tongs for safety purposes, seventy-two kilograms of trash, including both general and recyclable (plastic) trash, had been collected. This achievement surpassed last year’s record by an additional 15 kilogrammes which was a result of everyone’s hard work and effort!
“I’m glad to be part of this meaningful activity and contribute a small effort to protect the environment. We may not see the full impact while we are picking up tiny trash, for example, a plastic straw or a bottle cap. However, each of these things adds up. It is so great to see a cleaner beach and it gives us a sense of satisfaction.” said Jia Ying, plant contact engineer who just joined Infineum in June this year.
The Singapore Team used their "volunteering day" to run the beach clean up. The volunteering day is a benefit offered to every Infineum employee globally and consists of an extra day of annual leave that can be used to support their community. It is part of our Sustainability approach and helps us deliver on the UN sustainability goal 3 in supporting people and communities.
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The recent release of the IKEA Pulse Report #2 - Redefining a better Life at Home – focuses on people’s lives during a world pandemic.
The insight is based on the everyday existence of 20 households across five countries and how their relationships with the home has been impacted. Jenny Lee, Life at Home Communication Leader, Ingka Group, writes below about the learnings and how both global and local issues are impacting people’s emotions.
Since 2014, IKEA has been building a better understanding of life at home through yearly Life at Home reports.
With the changing nature of daily life in 2020, IKEA has released two short pulse reports concentrating on live, ongoing insight to explore the impact of the global pandemic. A full report will then be released later this year.
In 2019, over 30,000 people took part in research for IKEA. Every year we gain detailed insight into people’s relationships with their homes. This year will be fascinating to see the findings in the backdrop of a pandemic and seismic shift to our daily habits.
As the peak of the pandemic has subsided and restrictions are being lifted, what has been really interesting to see in our pulse reports is that global issues are on our mind. At an everyday level, meanwhile, we are faced with hundreds of new choices and decisions that we are having to integrate into our daily lives.
We are seeing a world that is out of sync. Life outside the home is stressful, with different rules and restrictions in place. These can often change regularly and abruptly. A simple everyday gesture like wanting to hug a friend or to shake a hand, have become disjointed and disconnected.
With rising fear due to financial instability, eco-anxiety and social inequalities focused around Black Lives Matters, people are prioritising stability, reflecting on past decisions and how they want to future proof their home and well-being.
We are starting to see the emergence of what we define as an unassuming sustainability mindset. It is when people start to recognise that they want to be more sustainable in whatever form they define that to be. For example, such as supporting local businesses or bringing nature into the home. They are both key staple components of daily life that people want to bring forward into the future.
Privacy vs security & comfort
Emerging from lockdown is positive but it creates an uncertain future too. A lot of people actually feel more comfortable within the home because that’s the place where they can create their own rules and be themselves without having to second guess every action they take.In the first IKEA Pulse Report #1 – called ‘In the Messy Middle’ – it was found that both security and comfort were craved by households.
The IKEA Life at Home Report 2019 focused on the Power of Privacy and why that was so important. In fact, 88% of people surveyed expected their homes to provide privacy, while 35% admitted that not getting access to privacy caused anxiety.
With those findings in mind, and considering the global upheaval and how homes have recently become multi-functional for so many, we expected privacy to be one of the top emotional needs in lockdown.
Actually, what we learnt was that people found ways around the privacy issue. Privacy didn’t become the most important need; it became about comfort and security in particular. Households have quickly adapted to a more integrated way of living.
What is a home?
When we think about home, we don’t see home now – from our experience and having spoken to the 20 households – as just about a person within their four walls.
As this is a global pandemic, we’ve seen how actually being confined has made us appreciate that home is more than just about the walls. It is about a community and the global pandemic has made us recognise that it hadn’t impacted just one person, it has impacted everyone and we’re all sharing the experience at the same time.
The concept of home is therefore being radically redefined – what does home mean? Is it just the functional needs? Or is it more than just that? That’s what’s become important for people to consider about their relationships with their home.
As a result, people are re-evaluating their home relationship and reflecting upon their actual needs. They are coming back to the question of how they will future proof their homes and well-being going forward and what does a better life at home mean for them?
Therefore, the subject of the future is an appropriate focus of the IKEA Life at Home Report 2020. Arguably, this year has been more disruptive on a global scale than ever before in recent times.
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PE firms are adroitly aware of the need to transfer as much operational risk from their funds as possible. This isn’t a process for the faint hearted. Fund managers need to play a not insignificant role in partnering with their Broker/Risk Advisers to ensure that the scope of risk is properly communicated to the underwriters. Generally this is a subject for the true specialists that offer tailored policies and access to high limits of indemnity.
PE firms owe a heightened duty of care to an especially vigilant customer base – investors. The risks are all too apparent. Errors or negligence in the management of investments, or even criminal conduct, will result in claims for damages.
The targets of the litigation might be the funds, the managers, the firm or the directors individually.
Very special attention needs to be paid to US exposure where individuals VC directors on portfolio company boards are often described as “having a target on their back”.
PI insurance will respond to professional service failure, and D&O will deal with a director or officer’s breach of fiduciary duty (management conduct rather than professional services). And the latter, as with all such D&O risks, seeks to cover the personal liability for losses (non-indemnified), rather than the loss incurred by the firm.
A number of insurers offer a policy covering both the Professional and Director’s risks in one form, often referred to as a VCAP policy.
PE firms then need to cast an eye, possibly both eyes in a prolonged fashion, at the risk management/insurance processes adopted by their portfolio companies. This again is complex and calls for a close relationship with the Broker and Insurer. Cover is needed for board roles, contingent protection for Fund Management involvement, carve-outs in the D&O, and importantly the investee company’s insurance must be independently audited on a regular basis.
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No one can predict the exact occurrences of the future. But, preparedness for the future is vital in the present. COVID-19 is a frightful shock to the global economy as well as the thousands of individuals and families it has affected. With this virus, we are already seeing early signs of a shift in how the healthcare industry behaves. Innovations in healthcare are dedicated to brace technological innovators to address the COVID-19 global pandemic. While technological experts are uniquely positioning themselves to flatten the curve, the lessons from the current pandemic situation drive innovation to handle the post-pandemic world. This blog walks through the new wave of healthcare innovation that healthcare sector can expect in the near future.
Social distancing is the new norm to tide over the pandemic crisis. This is not just limited to the public but extends to healthcare workers. Today, people refrain from in-person consulting. In this situation, telehealth promises smooth healthcare delivery. Telehealth is the provision of healthcare remotely utilizing telecommunications technology. Previously this tech solution was held back for several reasons. But today, this is the only mean to save lives without risking lives. The advantage of telehealth is, with chatbots and automated algorithm, it can handle more patients than in-person care. According to Forrester Research, the adoption of telemedicine shifted into hyper-drive with virtual healthcare interactions on pace to top 1 billion by the end of 2020.
The demand followed by the COVID-19 lockdown around the world is not just limited to groceries. People’s pharmaceutical needs have been increasing drastically. Compliances for online pharmacies are getting relaxed to let technology lead the pharmaceutical-delivery. But, the industry is being regularised with a new set of rules and regulations. It extends to the door-step delivery of essential medicines. On the other hand, even online pharmacies are struggling to fulfil customer needs due to acute shortage of staffs and increased demand. But, the advent of Robotic Process Automation promises to overcome the challenges of increasing demand while complying with the regulations by automating high-volume repetitive tasks. Pharmaceutical industry foresees RPA to enrich the quality of medical data by reducing the need to source data from third parties.
Monitoring and Analytical Tools
Global health innovators are springing into action to answer the call for novel healthcare inventions to fight the novel virus. Pandemic monitoring and analytical tools are the prime need to keep pandemics under control. Medical data helps to make smart decisions on when to seek medical care and when to stay home. Some of the powerful Artificial Intelligence capabilities like machine learning and deep learning, unleashing the power of health data. The biggest challenge to Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is not whether the technologies will be apt to be useful, but rather establishing their adoption in daily clinical practice. For ubiquitous adoption to take place, AI must be approved by regulators, standardised to a sufficient degree and paid by public or private payer organisations and updated over time in the field.
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About Heroku Connect
Heroku Connect is a data integration tool that uses bi-directional synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres to harmonize Postgres data your Salesforce information like contacts, accounts, and custom objects. Heroku connect includes a user-friendly, point-and-click interface so non-tech-savvy users can set up the service in minutes without coding or complicated configuration procedures.
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Heroku Connect Synchronization of Apps Across Heroku and Salesforce
Heroku Connect allows you to build apps with open source stacks, natively integrate the apps with Postgres, and directly sync them with Salesforce. By integrating your Salesforce data with Heroku Postgres, it's easy to combine the power of the Lightning Platform with Heroku. Heroku Connect makes the process of building apps that bring your data and processes to your users as easy as coding in SQL.
Heroku Connect External Objects
Heroku Connect External Objects let you make your Heroku Postgres database information available inside your Salesforce deployment. This empowers you to synchronize your information across both platforms as you create, read, update, and delete data. By creating sophisticated applications inside Heroku and making the app data available to your Salesforce processes, you'll present a seamless experience in Salesforce, while all of your data stays inside Heroku Postgres. Moreover, configuring Heroku-Salesforce integrations for data pertaining to apps, sensors, customers, and products is a simple, point-and-click process that doesn't require any coding skills. Heroku External Objects combined with Salesforce Connect makes it easy to create a seamless experience across all of your business systems.
Heroku Connect Data Security Compliance
Heroku Shield Connect supports the development of applications that share sensitive data with Salesforce while complying with the strictest data security standards. Safely integrate CRM data, Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), contact information, account data, and custom objects between Heroku apps and Salesforce. Heroku Shield Connect provides an easy pathway for building advanced applications that need to adhere to the most complicated data security regulations, including HIPAA compliance.
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Through its compatibility with the most popular stacks and programming languages, Heroku Connect facilitates easy application development. Its add-on ecosystem includes your favorite development tools and databases (like New Relic, Mongo, and Redis) so you can use them with the applications you're creating. Through Heroku's proven infrastructure, which currently supports 26 billion daily transactions for massive consumer websites (such as Upworthy and Bonobo) virtually limitless scaling is available for high volume applications.
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Set oven rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 350-degrees F. Line 2 large baking sheets with baking parchment, set aside.
In medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set dry ingredients aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, or using large mixing bowl and hand-held mixer, beat butter with Sugar In The Raw on medium speed until butter is pale and fluffy; mixture will be grainy. Beat in egg and Monk Fruit In The Raw just until combined. Add dry ingredients and mix until completely combined; dough will be dense and dry. Add milk, vanilla, peppermint extract and mix until dough is moist and sticky. Mix in chocolate chips by hand.
Place 30-inch piece of wax paper on work surface. Turn dough out onto paper and shape it into 10-inch disk. Wrap and refrigerate until dough is firm enough to handle, 1-2 hours. Dough may be refrigerated up to 24 hours and set at room temperature to soften slightly.
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Can poverty be eradicated?
Poverty is lack of money to the point that the individual cannot afford their basic needs. There are two types of poverty, which are absolute and relative. Absolute poverty is lack of basic needs for a long period of time that puts your life in danger, which opposes with relative poverty, which covers the vital and biological needs like food, clean water, and basic housing. (poverties.org, 2011)
In my opinion, I think poverty can not be eradicated because there are forty percent of people who are at poverty level, which means 2.8 billion people. In addition, it is difficult to eradicate poverty since we have so many corrupt officials when the governments give the funds to the poor people, those officials will take the money from the funds to do dishonest or illegal things with it. Poverty can not be eradicated unless people educate their children offering them a better life. For example, if a poor family does not send their children to school therefore their children will not get education and a well paid job in the future. With the job that they can get without any education will enable them to get jobs that will only offer them basic living. Furthermore, poverty can not be eradicated in some areas because of poor quality and quantity of foods, clean water and medical assistance. Moreover, with bad environment it can cause the disease and people could be death of the disease as they do not have good quality of medical condition.
Lastly, I feel like if you are poor in today society that there are ways to escape poverty. Although, there would be many challenges to overcome I feel like it is very obtainable. I feel like that is another issue with today’s society because poor families are reliant on our government which causes a strain on working class
Today, as we find ourselves in the twenty first century, our problem with poverty still exists and appears to be getting worse. Cities are continuing to grow to max capacities, hunger rings clear throughout the world, natural resources are depleted everyday due to over use, causing a degradation of our environment and billions of individuals do not claim Yahweh as their God. These are the occurrences on this planet on an everyday day cycle. There appears to be more focus on selfishness and the everyday rather than living in community with others. Plain and simple, poverty is serious and we must get to the root of it.
Poverty is affecting billions of people around our world and the number is growing with each day. Many people think they can avoid the effects of poverty, but it is something that affects all of our daily lives. Many people see poverty as a person who lacks money, although this is true poverty is caused by many more things than being without money. Just the fact that one in two children live in poverty can help people see clearly the impact it has on our world. Poverty truly does influence the type of care and treatment a person will receive when they need it.
Poverty and deprivation of many kinds is a very serious problem, not only in the United States, but also around the world. In a study in 2014, forty-seven million people living in the U.S. were considered to be in poverty; that is fifteen percent of its population . Poverty and deprivation is a serious topic that everyone should be aware of; if you are not aware of a problem,how are you going to fix it? You can find examples of this topic in almost every where; From books and movies to your everyday life. The most common known definition of poverty is economic poverty, but there is also social, emotional, and spiritual poverty and deprivation.
Poverty can be a vicious cycle for some families that goes from generation to generation. Another personal issue that can lead to poverty is illness and unemployment which puts someone out of work and there is little to no income coming in. Along with these personal issues that I stated there are also many
Accumulating an education is one of the best ways to end poverty. According to the article, Who is more successful, an educated person or an uneducated person? by AbdulRahman El Shaarawy “If those living in poverty can get an education, they can pull themselves out of those living conditions.
Poverty is one of the most horrific epidemics in our society today. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. It is a very serious problem that many people suffer from today. Many issues such as illness, hunger, and bad sanitation are all causes of poverty. Statistics show that there are over 35 million Americans that live in poverty.
Defined, poverty means someone who lacks the socially acceptable amount of money to survive. Poverty often leads to a cycle of not being able to afford what is needed across generations. The US has about 12.7% of its population below the poverty line and the rate has been decreasing. The two perspectives that look at this topic in both a positive and negative light are the structural functionalist and the conflict theory. The structural functionalist theory believes everything is a working part of society and is needed to create a sort of well oiled machine and that every part has its own use and needed function.
A lack of money or low income is the main reason to be uneducated or less educated, because to have access to learning facilities you need money and if your family income is low then you will lose all the opportunities that other people has it. Another effect is, having less network of communication in society and less interaction of people toward poor once, which separate these tow part of society. The very last and major effect of growing up in poverty is being victims in a society. Being a victim means that every burden and hard work in a society are on the poor peoples because they do not have basic education. In addition, poverty creates homelessness, violence inside the home and outside in society, and child labor, which nowadays it is a worldwide
Everything going on in the world has cause and effects. Not only to a couple of individuals or community, but to everyone. And looking at poverty, it should be eliminated, or at least decreased because of the effects it has towards our society, health,
‘Poverty’- a simple word with unlimited connotations. Poverty is a universal issue that has been plaguing our Earth for centuries; thus it is essential that the immensity of the situation is acknowledged by everyone. If looked up, you’ll find the exact definition of poverty being: ’general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Poverty is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements. Poverty may be defined as either absolute or relative.’
Poor people being unable to take part in social and cultural norms leads to breakdown of social relation among the people The effects of poverty can be mainly categorized as unemployment, illiteracy, food security, psychological well-being, increased crime rate, child health, homelessness etc. Major effect of poverty is unemployment to those without land or dependable wage labor. Poor people can rarely find permanent, salaried job in the village or even in the city. Poor people engage in informal and daily wage labor with no security and low earnings.
In this respect, poverty can be eliminated by interaction with the right people in society. Poverty leads to most social problems in society but can be evaded or corrected with the correct perspective. Also, equal development of all regions would ensure that all members in the various societies are treated equally and therefore such disparities between the poor and the rich would
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, briefed Congress on Wednesday about the ongoing spread of monkeypox across the United States. However, she noted that the rate at which new cases have been reported has reduced over the past several weeks.
According to her testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday, the virus is still spreading at a rapid clip in certain regions of the United States. However, the growth of new monkeypox cases across the country and globally has been slowing down in recent weeks.
She stated in front of the committee that “we approach this news with guarded hope.”
More than 22,600 cases of monkeypox have been reported in all 50 states and Washington, District of Columbia in the United States, making it the greatest outbreak of its kind in the world. according to the data from the CDC. This also includes Puerto Rico.
The disease only rarely results in death, but it does create painful sores that look like blisters or pimples. Dr. Walensky reports that there has been one documented fatality in the United States as a direct result of the condition.
The only vaccination for monkeypox that is currently authorised for use in the United States is called Jynneos and it is produced by the Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic. There are two doses, which are given out 28 days apart, and experts from the CDC believe that it is essential for anyone who are at risk to receive the second shot. Following the second dose, it takes around two weeks for the immune system to attain its maximum reaction.
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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro delivered an ominous prophecy on Tuesday, painting a grim picture of what lies ahead if nations fail to swiftly redesign the way humans live.
“It has been a year in which humanity lost and without hesitation has advanced the times of extinction,” he said in his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
“It would seem as though the global leadership has made enemies with life.”
Lately, Mr Petro has projected himself as a global leader on climate change — and reproached others for failing to fully heed its peril.
At Brazil’s Amazon Summit in July he called on his oil-producing neighbours to abandon fossil fuels, and asserted that allowing continued drilling while calling for a green transition is tantamount to being in denial.
At the UN, he said that what he called “the crisis of life” has already begun, as signalled by migration of climate refugees, and warned that in the coming half-century, their numbers will reach three billion.
His country, today covered by lush forests, will transform to desert, he said, and its people will decamp en masse, “no longer attracted by the sequins of the wealth, but by something simpler and more vital – water”.
Mr Petro said mankind has “dedicated itself to war”, which has distracted attention and resources from development goals and climate change, which he called “the mother of all crises”.
He finished by saying he wants his three grandchildren to live “far from apocalypse and the times of extinction”.
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What will I get asked at a job interview?
Firstly, well done on surviving the initial round of filtering by the IT recruiter; you are what they want - on paper!
The next challenge is essentially to practice what you preach during the interview. It is time to display your skills and experience, while being able to verbalise your attitudes, aptitudes, stability and motivation.
For their part, the interviewer will ask a number of questions to determine your strong and weak points and evaluate you on your qualifications, skills and intellectual qualities. The short time you spend in an interview could have a dramatic effect on your career prospects.
Therefore, it is important that you perform well because no matter how good your career record is to date, the job interview remains key towards fulfilling your ambitions.
The technical recruiters at itContracting have compiled the following typical questions that appear often in interviews:
Tell me about yourself?
Delivering a mixture of professional and personal experiences are important. Talk about your background, interests, education, and why you chose the career path you have.
TIP: Answer no longer than five minutes on this question and no less than three minutes.
How would your friends describe you?
Answer this question with confidence and conviction. Either give your answer followed by a brief example or offer three bullet points and then follow up with examples.
Example: Sociable, loyal, committed, honest, fun, determined etc. Remember the question is how your friends would describe you so think about more ‘non-work’ related words. Remember to keep it appropriate and positive.
What are your top three strengths?
The most important question. You must perfect this answer. Most people have five key strengths – select your top three. Remember it should reflect your career path. Example: If you are a project manager, the strengths you should highlight include organisational and collaboration skills,
Choose three, stick with it and practice delivering examples.
What is important to you in your career over the next two years?
Know what you want from your career. For some people, achieving a specific qualification is important over the next two years. For others, it is a greater responsibility or overcoming particular challenges. Talk about how you want this to be achieved.
TIP: Talk about what you would like to see happen in your career over the next two-year period, rather than where you want to be in two years.
Give me one weakness you have?
This could be either a personal or a professional weakness, which could also be a strength. Explain how you are combatting this weakness.
Example: “I’ve had some challenges in the past with work-life balance, but I’ve taken the time to learn better time and project management processes.”
What motivates you?
Think about why you work and why you selected your chosen career path, and then match it against the reasons for wanting to be good at it. Some examples of drivers: recognition, challenges, success and making a difference.
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Windows 10 has pushed users towards a more friendly desktop user interface, after the debacle of Windows 8’s mixed mode. However, with more attention towards desktop experience, Microsoft seems to have dropped the ball on the tablet mode. Microsoft seems to be working towards brining back some of the best tablet features of Windows 8 to Windows 10 with the latest insider preview build.
Windows 10 touch keyboard tips
One of the most annoying issues is not having the virtual keyboard pop up when you tap on a field no matter you are in tablet mode or not. It mostly happens with third party apps where it might seem that the Windows 10 touch keyboard is not working, but there is a simple solution. Go to Settings > Devices > Typing and enable the option which says ‘Automatically show the touch keyboard in windows apps when there’s no keyboard attached to your device’. So the next time you tap on the address bar in Google Chrome, the keyboard will automatically appear rather than you having to tap the little keyboard button in the bottom right of the screen.
There are some more changes that can be done from this setting screen. You can enable or disable the annoying key sounds (they don’t work for me even if I have this option turned on. Thanks Microsoft). Other options that I would not recommend changing are the capitalisation and caps lock features which are very helpful if you have to type a lot on your Windows virtual keyboard.
Moving Windows 10 touch keyboard
Another tip for Windows 10 touch keyboard users: not all apps work well with the touch keyboard. Sometimes the field stays hidden behind the keyboard instead of moving up so in such instances, press the button next to the close button on the top right of the keyboard to detach it from the bottom of the screen. Now you can drag and move it where ever you want on the screen and easily do your text entry while having the field in full view.
Different touch keyboards in Windows 10
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As CJBS Executive Education launches the Centre for Compliance & Trust, the Centre’s Executive Director, Richard Hill, shares some of the vision for Centre activities
The Centre for Compliance & Trust will be focused on impact and practicality. Sitting within the Executive Education function of Cambridge Judge Business School, our goal is to create impact through meaningful engagements with key industry players. These partnerships will support the development of behaviours and practices that are demanded of them in the new environment of regulation and responsibility.
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There were over 25 people who spoke in the public comment section of the meeting and I can say confidently that every single person was opposed to the Council's actions. I also spoke and here it the transcript of my statement:
The #1 priority of the City Council should be the safety of its residents. The City Council failed in its primary duty with its ordinance on parolee housing at the July 17 meeting. The council let fear of potential future litigation paralyze its collective thought process. This was demonstrated by the lack of creativity and vision in presenting only three options for the Council to choose from.
The council did not clearly present what their goals were in adopting the half measure ordinance that would seek to put parolees a mere 500 feet away from our schools and children. Instead, the only message I heard was that you needed to do something, and you wanted to avoid litigation. Doing something so ineffective is equivalent to doing nothing. Sure there was a fig leaf of a limitation – but tell that to the folks who live in Keller Ridge or Stranahan or right off of Oakhurst Dr. – the target location the Council has designated for parolees. It seems like the goal of the City Council is to avoid litigation at all costs, rather than protect the safety of Clayton residents. What prevents the Council from simply declaring they do not want parolees in Clayton, anywhere?
We’ve been told by the Council that there is a mandate by the State – that Clayton is required to accept parolees in these community based programs in our neighborhoods. But this isn’t true. AB109 directed the State to send prisoners to the Counties. Each county could adopt a plan on how it was to handle the new influx. But this doesn’t specifically bind the City. When you debate between 300, 500, or 1000 feet, it’s clear the city has choices on the regulations it adopts. Why didn’t the Council adopt the most restrictive ordinance possible?
That nearby Antioch and Oakley have greater distance requirements belies any claim that the Council is being as restrictive as possible. Fear of litigation has made the council lose sight of the real danger being ushered into our city. Don't the residents of Clayton deserve the greatest possible restriction, or does the Council want to adopt a new mantra, "not as safe as Antioch"?
The legal jeopardy the Council is so afraid of should be explored in much greater depth. The specter of potential litigation is fear mongering. If the city bans parolee housing, does the Council believe we'd automatically lose against a disparate impact claim? That we are banning parolees so we are discriminating against minorities? It's hardly persuasive that the Council explored all possible actions when in their diligence they forgot about the park in Stranahan Cir when they identified potential locations for parolee housing right next to the park.
If you can say that the ordinance passed is the very best the City Council can come up with, then you are not trying hard enough. The Council should go back to the drawing board and take action that actually protects all Clayton residents and more heavily restricts or outright bans parolee housing in the city.
We can do better and that is why I’m a candidate for City Council in the upcoming November election.At the previous July 17 meeting, the Council was sure that they had done everything they can, they were being as restrictive as possible when they set the buffer at 500 feet from our children. They spoke in no uncertain terms that a 1000 feet buffer would be a de facto ban and that would be too great a risk for litigation to accept. But last night we heard a different story. Last night, after listening to pubic comment, the Council backtracked from their previous position and all the sudden now a 1000 feet buffer is apparently okay and not a de facto ban.
The Council explains this discrepancy as a result of Staff and Council going back to look in more detail at the map. And that was supposed to be comforting, that before they didn't do all they could do, but they decided to adopt a 500 ft buffer anyways?
Here’s the problem. Even though the Council increased the buffer last night, it reveals at best a group asleep at the wheel who failed to do their diligence at the July 17 meeting, and is now realizing their mistake. At worst, it shows poor judgment and a stunning lack of commitment to the safety of Clayton residents. It shows the City Council has forgotten its primary objective – ensuring the safety of the people. And while the Council stumbled around trying to get details for a new ordinance together on the fly at the Aug 21 meeting, the newly proposed ordinance is still badly flawed. That the Council would act so hastily, without regard to community input, is indicative of a Council that isn't responsive to the needs of Clayton residents.
It’s especially revealing in the way Councilman Shuey talks about the issue. When trying to justify the action of the July 17 meeting, here is what Mr. Shuey said:
“Thus, staff has come up with a proposal that does as much as possible to narrow the risk to Clayton.”First, we know for a fact that the staff did not come up with a proposal that did as much as possible because at last nights Aug 21 meeting they revised and increased the distance requirement in the newly proposed ordinance. And while we can appreciate the potential risk to the city, this reveals a fundamentally different way of approaching issues. The first consideration should be the safety of the residents, the risk to the people. But no, if Mr. Shuey would have his way, his first priority is to avoid litigation, the risk to the city itself,but nothing about its residents whom he represents.
So what does changing the buffer to 1000 feet mean to the residents of Clayton? Perhaps the Council would celebrate, pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Hey, they listened (belatedly) and made a change! For everyone else though, that’s NOT what it means. If someone abuses you, but they only leave you bruised instead of breaking your arm, we don’t celebrate the fact that there was only a bruise this time. Here are the take aways for the residents of Clayton:
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St. Akakios, Bishop of Liti and Rendini |
Leading over a mighty chorus, the pious praised you,
As a divinely inspired friend of the Savior, sacred Akakios.
Saint Akakios lived in the late fifteenth century. He was ordained bishop of the historic diocese of Liti and Rendini by the then Metropolitan of Thessaloniki and later Patriarch of Constantinople, Saint Nephon (Aug. 11), with whom he was associated spiritually. He also had a close spiritual relationship with Saint Theophilos the Myrrhgusher (July 8), whom he ordained a priest. Saint Theophilos had him as his Elder, "because he found Akakios to be pious and virtuous," who bore no wickedness. Thus, through Akakios, Saint Theophilos became associated with Saint Nephon, as well as the entire holy company in the circle of Saint Nephon, such as the subsequent Holy Martyrs Makarios (Sept. 14) and Joasaph (Oct. 26), Elder Iakovos of Dionysiou and Deacon Iakovos who were martyred in Adrianople (Nov. 1), Saint Theona (Apr. 4), the brothers Theophanos and Nektarios of Apsaras (May 17), as well as the well-known Saint Maximos the Greek (Jan. 21).
When Saint Nephon, as Patriarch of Constantinople, learned of the great and wonderful things that were taking place in Egypt, he sent there in 1486 the only man he completely trusted and was distinguished for his wisdom and virtue, Bishop Akakios of Liti and Rendini, whom he very much revered and respected, along with his disciple, Saint Theophilos, and a group of clerics, to be better informed of the details of what was seen and heard. They brought a letter of Nephon to the Patriarch of Alexandria, Saint Joachim of Pany (Sept. 17), where he thanked the Lord that he answered the prayer of Joachim for performing in a wonderful and great way these miracles.
Patriarch Joachim accepted his guests with love and joy and had them stay at the Patriarchate for a good while, where they were taken care of, showing admiration for the personalities sent by Constantinople.
From there Saints Akakios and Theophilos with those who escorted them went to God-trodden Mount Sinai, and having piously venerated that place, they went into the desert to meet the ascetics of the desert. From there they went to the Holy City, Jerusalem, and having venerated with longing the Life-giving Tomb of the Lord, they went to Mount Tabor. After they went to Damascus and met with the Patriarch of Antioch, who gave them a letter for the Patriarch of Constantinople, then they returned to Jerusalem. There Saint Akakios suddenly fell ill and reposed in the Lord. He was buried by his disciple Theophilos with great reverence, who buried him according to the monastic and ascetic tradition of the time, because he was a complete enemy of the vanity and the futility of the world, probably in a humble place, as Saint Akakios would have wanted, where he wrote as a marker, "The humble Bishop of Liti and Rendini", always hidden from the glory of men.
Saint Akakios was a Bishop who lived an ascetic and hesychastic life in the tradition of Saint Gregory Palamas and Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki after the Fall of Constantinople, and was held in great reverence by the saints of his time, to whom he taught the ideals of noetic prayer, and was a bright star of the Orthodox Church.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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LOHREY, Adelaide Mason
Adelaide Mason Lohrey of Seaford passed away on Friday, September 24, 2021, at Tidal Health - Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, DE. She was 74.
She was born on November 11, 1946, in Bronxville, New York, the daughter of the late Charles Sanford King, II and Adelaide Whittemore King.
After graduating High School, she earned her nursing certificate from the Clara Mass School of Nursing and pursued a life-long career caring for others. She worked as an emergency room nurse at Miami Valley and Grandview Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio for more than 40 years.
She was a former member of the United Church of Christ. In her free time, she loved to travel and spend time with her family and friends.
She is survived by her sister, Sandra Ruark and her husband Jay of Federalsburg, a brother Douglas King of Highbridge, NJ, two grandchildren: Megan Kilpatrick, Benjamin Kilpatrick, daughters-in-law; Rebecca Kilpatrick and her husband
William, and Roberta Lohrey-Drake and her husband Doug; a niece Lisa Wencloff, nephew E. Alan Ruark, and great-niece Sarah Wencloff and great-nephew Jacob Wencloff.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Robert Lohrey, her children: Christine Adelaide Reutter and Frederick Charles Reutter.
There will be a celebration of life service for her at a later date.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Caroline County Humane Society, 407 West Belle Street, Ridgely, MD 21660 or the Humane Society of Greene County Ohio, 187 Bellbrook Ave., Xenia, OH 45385.
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Suspecting your spouse of infidelity can negatively impact your physical and mental well-being. The what-ifs can be challenging to deal with, leaving you with no other chance than to investigate the matter further. However, determining whether or not your spouse is cheating can be tricky since most cheaters go to great lengths to conceal their affairs from their significant other. So how are you supposed to find out if you are dealing with a cheating spouse? Keep reading to learn!
Before you unleash your inner detective, you should have an honest conversation with your spouse about your concerns. Explain your concerns to your significant other in a calm and composed manner, as well as why you feel they are cheating. Allow your partner to explain themselves and listen patiently. There are three possible outcomes to this conversation:
If you find yourself in the third situation, there are several other ways to catch a cheating spouse.
We live in a digital age where an individual’s social media and digital footprint can tell us much about what may be happening in their life. So a great way to catch a cheating spouse is to watch their social media and other personal communication devices like laptops, mobile phones, etc. Try to look for deleted conversations, calls from unknown numbers, and archived images.
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As you’ve probably noticed, I live in Hawaii, but I’ve been traveling on the mainland lately. I was recently lucky enough to revisit some of my (i.e. Sydney’s fictionalized) old Tallahassee haunts.
I was surprised by the usual—how much some places changed, and how much others stayed the same—and also by my reactions to those changes and resilient bits.
I’ll be writing about it soon, but I want to give my observations and reactions time to ferment into something beyond blathering, like sharing kombucha instead of stale tea. (Okay, I should have warned you, I’m still pretty time zone-addled, and the metaphors haven’t caught up.)
Until then, I’m sharing a couple of shots from one of my favorite spots—the Riverside Cafe in St. Marks, Florida!
They’ll be having the Stone Crab Fest this weekend, but if you’re any kind of large crustacean, you might want to stay clear. People get a little mallet-happy.
Want my recommendation? The fried corn something-or-other. (The veggie Philly no-steak sandwich is in the background.) This is the kind of thing that makes you love the south, especially if you’re a cardiologist. It’s little chunks of creamed corn, breaded and fried, with a horseradish ranch sauce on the side. And don’t forget the sweet tea!
If you’re feeling as lethargic as I was after lunch, you can always take the bike trail back to Tallahassee. It’s only a dozen or so miles. 🤢
I also wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I’ll be doing a BOOK SIGNING at the Public Library in my home town of Wardensville, WV, on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, from 6-8 p.m.
Drop by and say hi if you’re in the neighborhood. I’ll be happy to sign your copy of Back to Lazarus, and I’ll have paperbacks for sale.
It’s starting to look like a mini-reunion with family and friends and fellow Cougars. (That’s East Hardy High School alumni, not predatory older women—I don’t know what age that kind of cougardom kicks in, but neither me nor anyone I went to school with qualifies yet, I swear!) Hope to see you there! | <urn:uuid:4620bd76-f506-443b-9a62-1722cee29a39> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.judykwalker.com/fried-corn-nuggets-welcome-back-to-the-south/ | 2024-04-17T08:34:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.942963 | 540 |
Teaching excellence earns two graduate students honors from K-State
MANHATTAN — Two graduate students have been awarded the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence, sponsored by Kansas State University's Graduate Student Council.
The master's award winner is Bryan Raymundo, master's student in fine arts, Wichita. His major professor is Jason Scuilla, professor of art. The doctoral award winner is Benjamin Jones, doctoral candidate in human ecology, specializing in couple and family therapy, Griffin, Georgia. His major professor is Glade Topham, professor of applied human sciences.
The GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence recognizes graduate students who have excelled in classroom teaching. The awards promote the important contributions graduate students make to the scholarship of the university. Raymundo and Jones will represent the university for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, or MAGS, Excellence in Teaching Award, with a winner selected at both the master's and the doctoral levels. Since the MAGS teaching award was established in 2011, K-State has had six winners, the most by any university.
Raymundo and Jones each will receive a $500 scholarship and their names and departments are engraved on a perpetual plaque displayed in their departments until the next awards are given.
"Raymundo and Jones exemplify the outstanding graduate student teachers who contribute to K-State's teaching and learning mission," said Claudia Petrescu, vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate School. "Our GTAs enhance the undergraduate experience by providing high-quality teaching and mentorship. Engaging in teaching during their graduate education also allows graduate students to gain valuable skills and increases their competitiveness for future careers. K-State has had a strong track record for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award. I am proud to have Raymundo and Jones as our nominees, and I know they will represent K-State well in this year's competition."
"When teaching, I enjoy seeing my students realize their fullest potential creatively and the excitement they exude when they bring one of their ideas to light," Raymundo said. "As a Mexican American, I want my students who consider themselves as the 'other' to see me and realize the possibilities of what is achievable."
Raymundo said in art and life, trusting yourself in making decisions and learning how to work with those ideas is essential.
"I have experienced a full continuum of attitudes toward diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and those engagements have been key in helping to shape my approach in my life, artwork and teaching," Raymundo said. "The position I am in is a privilege to be able to work with my students each day. I learn as much from my students as they do from me."
Raymundo plans to continue teaching in academia and his research as a practicing artist.
Jones said that practicality, inclusiveness, connections and kindness are the focus of his teaching philosophy.
"I strive to ensure that diverse experiences are discussed in my courses, with an emphasis on highlighting the work of scholars from minoritized communities," Jones said. "I strive to be very accessible and responsive to my students so that they know from the earliest class periods that I am an advocate for their success."
Jones said he seeks to model kindness through policies responsive to the ongoing needs of students who are balancing mental health concerns, financial difficulties, or a host of other presentations that create obstacles to engagement.
"The ability to see students be successful at gaining knowledge and developing new skills is what I love the most about teaching," Jones said. "My hope is that students who take my courses feel more confident and equipped for life outside the classroom as a result of the work we do together."
Jones will graduate with his doctorate in couple and family therapy in spring 2023 and wants to teach at the university level while still maintaining his own clinical practice.
Raymundo and Jones will compete for a $750 honorarium that will be presented at the 79th annual Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools meeting in March 2023. The association is a regional affiliate of the Council of Graduate Schools. The association's member colleges and universities are accredited institutions of higher education in the central U.S. that offer graduate programs leading to masters, specialist and doctorate degrees. | <urn:uuid:8143e755-8c86-4a2c-a580-70df7616e30b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2022-11/gsc-awards11822.html | 2024-04-17T10:12:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.974762 | 879 |
PivotTables are one of Excel’s most powerful features – if not THE most powerful feature – and are exceptionally useful at summarizing large volumes of data when preparing analytical reports. But in some circumstances, you might need to summarize data to create an analytical report and a PivotTable may not be the ideal tool for that application. In that situation, you should consider using Excel’s SUMIFS function as an alternative and in this tip, you will learn how to take advantage of SUMIFS to create analytical reports.
In this example, a comparative year-over-year cash disbursements report is built using the SUMIFS function on data stored in a table in the workbook; that report is pictured in Figure 1. More specifically the following formula resides in cell D15 and has been copied to other cells in columns D and E, as appropriate:
The formula above is used to identify all the transactions from the Checks table where the data in the Account No field matches the value in cell B15 (currently 60200) and also where the data in the EOMONTH field of the Checks table matches the value in cell D6 (currently 4/30/2019). When both these conditions are met, the value from the Debit column of the Checks tables is summed along with all other values from the Debit column of the Checks table for which the same criteria are met. In this fashion, the SUMIFS formula is used to create a cross-tabular report, very similar to the results generated via a PivotTable.
A few additional items of interest in this report include:
- To add end-user interaction, cell K2 uses List validation with EOMDates (a defined name) as the source of the list values.
- The formulas in cells D6 and E6 use the EOMONTH function to head the columns with the appropriate month ending dates, which are formatted with a custom date format, “mmm yyyy“.
- The formula in the YoY % column employs the IFERROR function to prevent #DIV/0 errors in those cases where the budget is equal to zero.
- The formulas in cells A8:A42 allow users to filter out accounts with zero balances. If the account balances for the current month and the same month last year are equal to zero, the formula places an “X” in the cell, which can then be filtered out of the report prior to printing.
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After the recent changes to Google’s algorithm, many people believe the only way to increase your search ranking is by content marketing. This is simply not true.
Creating interesting and relevant content does play a big part in SEO now however it is such a broad topic it cannot be condensed down into just a few methods. There are hundreds of unique ways in which your website can earn higher rankings and here a just are few.
Improve The Crawl Friendliness Of Your Pages
Making sure the pages on your website are well structured, aesthetically pleasing and provide value to your users is vital in SEO. Having inconsistencies in your site may have a negative effect on your rankings. In addition to this you can also look into making your navigation model as clean as possible to make your site more indexable. For example if one page is linking to 6 other pages – that’s fine; but if you have one page linking to another page and then that page linking to another and so on this makes getting to deep pages very difficult. Along with improving the rankings this will also increase your web traffic.
Quite a simple one but making your pages faster does have an effect on rankings, so try and keep the data size of each page down. Users will be much happier using your website which will reduce your bounce rate and “pogo-sticking” activity, meaning you have a better chance of converting or getting your message across to customers.
Customers Sharing Their Experience
This is an interesting one because instead of going out and getting links, this method attracts links with shares, traffic, endorsements and partnerships etc. What you want from your customers is for them to tell others about their experience with you whether it was buying a product from you or using your services. Try to promote the fact that you’d be very grateful if they could like, share or tweet about your company. These social signals will all have a positive effect on your website rankings.
Classic Link Building
Classic link building is still very much alive! Many people believe that this technique is outdated however they couldn’t be more wrong. Classic competitive link building is just as valuable as it’s ever been. Use your desired link building tool (we like to use Open Site Explorer) and get started! Try to think outside the box and get links from a diverse group of places. Keep in mind ‘Quality not Quantity’, it’s much better to have 1 quality link rather than 100 poor links.
Above are just a few methods you could use alongside content marketing to improve your search rankings. Remember; use a wide variety of techniques to get the best results!
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The DVD MFD2 is a radio navigation system developed by Blaupunkt for Volkswagen cars. It uses a DVD disc to store map data and other features. However, some users may want to use their own self-burned DVD discs with custom maps or updates, which are not supported by the original firmware of the device. In this article, we will show you how to unlock the DVD MFD2 ISO and use any DVD disc you want.
Before you proceed, please note that this process is risky and may damage your device or void your warranty. You should only attempt this if you are confident and experienced with electronics and software. We are not responsible for any consequences of your actions. Also, make sure you have a backup of your original DVD disc and firmware in case something goes wrong.
Step 1: Update the Firmware
The first step is to update the firmware of your DVD MFD2 device to the latest version. This will enable some features and fix some bugs. To do this, you will need to download the VWMFD2DVDEU0030.iso file from the internet[^1^] and burn it to a CD or DVD disc at low speed (2x-4x). Then, follow these steps:
Turn on the ignition of your car and make sure there are no power interruptions. You can start the engine to have a stable current.
Press the NAV button on your device and insert the VWMFD2DVDEU0030.iso disc into the MFD drive.
The device will show you the current firmware version and the one on the disc and ask for confirmation to update. Select yes.
The update process will start and may take up to 30-40 minutes. Do not turn off the device or eject the disc during this time.
When the update is done, the device will restart and eject the disc.
Step 2: Unlock the Copy Protection
The next step is to unlock the copy protection of your DVD MFD2 device so that it can read any DVD disc you insert. To do this, you will need to download the UNLOCK CD file from the internet[^1^] and burn it to a CD or DVD disc at low speed (2x-4x). Then, follow these steps:
Press the NAV button on your device and insert the UNLOCK CD disc into the MFD drive.
The device will start to unlock the copy protection. This will take just a few seconds.
The screen will show a progress bar in a loop but once it completes a single cycle, it is safe to remove the disc from the device.
Step 3: Enjoy Your Unlocked DVD MFD2 ISO
Congratulations! You have successfully unlocked your DVD MFD2 ISO and can now use any self-burned DVD+R DL discs with custom maps or updates. However, you still need to burn them on good quality discs and at low speeds (2x) for optimal performance. You can find some sources for maps and updates online[^3^] [^4^]. Please note that we do not endorse or verify any of these sources and you should use them at your own risk.
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Local Smiths Falls Ontario History
Smiths Falls is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 8,978 according to the 2011 census. It is in the Census Division for Lanark County, but is separated from the county. The Rideau Canal waterway passes through the town, with four separate locks in three locations and a combined lift of over 15 metres (50 ft). The town's name was sometimes alternatively spelled "Smith's Falls" or "Smith Falls", but "Smiths Falls" is now considered correct. The town is named after Thomas Smyth, a United Empire Loyalist who in 1786 was granted 400 acres (1.6 km2) in what is present-day Smiths Falls. The Heritage House Museum (c. 1862), also known as the Ward House, was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1977. | <urn:uuid:3367b3f8-12fb-4dc7-a2ef-0761685d7fc7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.karensflowershop.ca/local/smiths-falls/ | 2024-04-17T09:42:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.948442 | 1,159 |
Sound travels at about 760 miles per hour, or 340 meters per second and about 661 knots on an average day at sea level. And sometimes, you can almost see it. Going close to that speed through air can cause some unusual visual effects. This compiled footage includes F-14s, standard and Blue Angels F-18s, plus the SR-71 and an Atlas Rocket launch. AVweb contacted sources at NASA to research the phenomena. | <urn:uuid:3ec047f5-c567-45ed-a967-0ede5ce621ec> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kariyawasam.com/sonic-booms-of-supersonic-flights/ | 2024-04-17T10:47:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.908255 | 90 |
Rental Holiday Villa Ihlara
Rental Holiday Villa Ihlara is located in the Islamlar region of Kalkan where 8 km away from the centre of Kalkan. Villa Ihlara’s pool terrace is unseen from outside for a secluded holiday. This villa is intertwined with nature.
Villa Ihlara; It is designed according to the capacity of accommodating 6 people in 3 bedrooms. One of the en-suite bedrooms has a jacuzzi. For our honeymoon couples and families, this villa offers you a peaceful holiday in nature.
NOTE: There is a pool heating system for April, May, October, November months.
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Six tiny songbirds make up this wonderful collection. Each bird measures 4 inches or less in life and are printed just about to size in these beautiful archival reproductions of Katrina's watercolor paintings. Printed on felt pressed recycled card stock. Individually cut and folded by hand.
Package of six assorted tiny songbird note cards. Cards measure 4.25" x 5.5" and are blank inside. Envelopes are of course included.
Golden crowned Kinglet
Red breasted Nuthatch
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Go through the wide range of Floor Cleaner which is provided by our company to our customers which is a highly concentrated cleaner which is used to kill the germs and to repel the insects. This cleaner is made of natural extracts which include pine oil and camphor oil. This cleaner is a superior emulsion of essential oils for cleaning floors & toilets. Currently, Floor Cleaner is available in few varieties such as MULTI PURPOSE CLEANER, Liquid Floor Cleaner, and Disinfectant Floor Cleaner. This is gentle and safe for hands. This cleaner is very effective and widely used by peoples. This cleaner is economical and can be easily purchased by our customers at nominal prices, in bulk quantities. | <urn:uuid:f1199b80-58c4-441e-8fc6-d062e500de58> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kavitpolybind.com/floor-cleaner.html | 2024-04-17T09:24:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.973628 | 154 |
Microcurrent Facial Toning
Non-Surgical Face Lift
- 1 hr1 h
- 90 US dollars$90
- 22nd Avenue North
Get the radiant and youthful look you’ve always wanted with the Microcurrent Facial Toning service from Kayla Neese. This painless facial uses low voltage electricity to stimulate your facial muscles, promoting blood circulation and lymphatic drainage. The result? A toned and lifted face with fewer wrinkles and fine lines. It’s like a workout for your face! Whether you’re looking to tone, tighten, or address rosacea, this service is perfect for you. Book an appointment today and enjoy the benefits of a younger-looking, more vibrant complexion.
Please cancel or reschedule appointment 24 hours before appointed time to avoid being blocked from future bookings
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Our May mission saw our nursing volunteers Lyle, Deb, Carole, Juliemae, Carol, Kathy and Hannah along with helpers Kenny & Rob, heading back to Nakuru, Kenya for another busy trip. This was a very successful trip on all counts with clinics run at the women’s prison, Lake Turkana, the truck stop on the outskirts of Nakuru and the Mission In Action orphanage (MIA). We were able to help several hundred people. We also were able to follow up cases we had initiated on previous trips
The women’s prison clinic began with worship on the Saturday and we returned on the Sunday for the clinic where we saw over one hundred women prisoners and their children with complaints ranging from the common cold to wounds, infections and chronic illness.
The trip to Lake Turkana required 2 days of travelling over extremely rough terrain necessitating a 4WD bus and 2 drivers and armed guards for protection on the notoriously dangerous road that is known to be patrolled by bandits. When we finally arrived we spent two and a half days in this remote community seeing hundreds of people who normally have no access to health care – people literally walked for days in the desert to see us.
Next we set up a clinic at a truck stop outside of Nakuru which we ran over 2 days. The clinic was run in an old church which was connected to a school. We saw children from the school as well as people from around the area. The school children mostly required antifungal creams and antibiotics for minor infections.
The clinics we ran out of MIA were visited by people from the surrounding community that required medical attention.
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Thanks to the generosity of a donor, Stacey’s surgery has been completed successfully.
We met Stacey at Nakuru West clinic in September this year. Kenya Health subsequently paid for her transport to the Provincial General Hospital and for tests to be done.
Stacey was diagnosed with a tumorous growth on her jaw. Thanks to the support and generosity of a donor covering the full $3000 treatment costs, Stacy’s surgery has now been completed successfully! | <urn:uuid:bc1efa35-71a9-4cad-93ea-c8f148eeae93> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kenyahealth.org/patients/stacey/ | 2024-04-17T08:10:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.976112 | 95 |
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking to create a successful business idea? It all starts with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. By identifying a problem or a need that people have, conducting research, brainstorming potential solutions, testing them, and executing your plan, you can create a business that sets you apart from competitors and attracts investors. Remember, successful businesses are born from innovative ideas that address real problems. So, go out there and make a difference!
Where do bright minds gather to spark the next business revolution?
When it comes to developing successful business ideas, networking plays a crucial role. It's important to understand that networking doesn't involve Multilevel Marketing. Instead, it revolves around attending events, conferences, and seminars, and connecting with professionals on social media platforms like LinkedIn. By doing so, you can establish mutually beneficial relationships with CEOs, Directors, and founders of different companies.
Networking with these individuals can provide you with valuable advice, insights, and access to their extensive networks. You'll also get an opportunity to learn about new business trends and developments, which can help you stay ahead of the curve. Besides, networking also allows you to build a positive reputation in your industry and establish yourself as a credible professional.
To make the most out of your networking efforts, it's essential to be proactive and strategic. Identify the professionals you want to connect with and research their backgrounds and interests. This will help you initiate conversations and build rapport with them. Additionally, always ensure that you follow up with your contacts and maintain regular communication. Remember, strong networking is a guarantee for success, and it's an investment that pays off in the long run.
Sparking Curiosity on Weekends
Have you ever thought about exploring the possibility of an internship with a startup during your weekends? Allow me to share an inspiring example. Back in Silicon Valley three years ago, Mr. X was among the fortunate few selected for Intel and University of Berkeley's startup accelerator program. This prestigious program only accepted 14 companies, including Mr. X's startup.
If Mr. X is now a senior executive in a top company, he can offer his weekends (Saturday and Sunday) to the startup without any monetary compensation. This is because startups are known for their innovative ideas and their potential to create groundbreaking products, which can ultimately increase their valuation. You never know which startup could become the next Apple or Facebook.
It's worth mentioning that all senior executives in Silicon Valley have dedicated their weekends to startups. Whether you're a business owner, an aspiring entrepreneur, or a student, spending time with startups during the weekends can help you gain valuable insights into the latest innovations and new cultures. Additionally, you may even get an opportunity to invest in the same startup, which could boost your financial portfolio.
Craft A/B Tests That Inspire and Convert
Are you feeling uncertain about the potential success of your business idea? AB testing might just be the solution you need. This particular approach involves testing two different approaches or variations, commonly known as A and B. For instance, if you're planning to launch a new product like Multani Mitti, you can create a basic package with a price of $100 and a fancy package with a price of $400. By monitoring which package sells better and generates more revenue, you can determine which approach to use moving forward. It's worth noting that AB testing can be used for different products, including mobile apps and book titles. To carry out AB testing, all you need to do is gather a small group of customers, show them your options, and then ask for their feedback. This way, you can gain confidence in your ideas based on real-world feedback, and make informed decisions on the best approach to take.
Build an MVP that your customers will love
When embarking on the task of creating a new product, it is imperative to adopt a minimal viable product (MVP) approach. This methodology involves developing a product that addresses the customer's key challenge with the minimum number of features that are essential for its functionality. A prime example of this approach is the Amazon Fire TV Stick remote, which has only five buttons. In contrast, a traditional TV remote has about 30-40 buttons, with most of them remaining unused by the average user. By creating a product that is simple, easy to use, and offers only the necessary features, businesses can save time and money while delivering an effective solution to their customers.
One of the core principles followed by Facebook is "Fail Fast, Fail Cheaply." This implies that if a product is launched in the market and it does not yield the desired outcomes, then the company hasn't invested much in it, thereby minimizing its losses. However, the feedback received from customers can help improve the product while also avoiding costly mistakes. Therefore, it is highly recommended that companies adopt a product development strategy that focuses on simplicity, like the Amazon Fire TV Stick, to ensure that their product is accessible to all age groups and provides a seamless user experience without unnecessary complications.
Hidden gems await the curious reader
In order to maintain a competitive edge, it is highly recommended to make a habit of reading biographies, books, and autobiographies. This practice can provide valuable insights into the happenings across different industries, as well as the perspectives of their respective founders. For a more targeted approach, we suggest checking out Tracxn.com. This comprehensive website offers research reports and assists in deciphering signals from emerging startups and industries, allowing for a more informed decision-making process.
The Business Model Canvas: A Powerful Tool for Assessing Your Killer Business Idea
If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, evaluating your business ideas can be a daunting task. You want to ensure that you are investing your time and resources into a venture that has the potential to succeed. This is where the Business Model Canvas comes in.
The Business Model Canvas is a visual tool that helps entrepreneurs to evaluate their business ideas. It is divided into eight sections, each of which represents a different aspect of the business. The sections are: Key Partners, Key Activities, Key Resources, Value Proposition, Customer Segments, Channels, Customer Relationships, and Revenue Streams.
By inputting all your business ideas into the canvas and utilizing the five frameworks mentioned, you can arrive at a single killer business idea out of 5-10 ideas that will certainly succeed. The five frameworks include: customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, and revenue streams.
If you are an established business owner wondering how to implement these killer business ideas, simply ask your senior employees to fill out the business model canvas with details about what they are currently doing and what ideas they are working on. When senior management self-assesses their ideas using this canvas, they will be able to focus their time on "the one thing" instead of getting sidetracked by other tasks. This will lead to increased productivity, better decision-making, and ultimately, greater success for your business. | <urn:uuid:fae4b9ae-319f-4ce9-9c09-098176da2413> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kevos.com/how-can-beginners-make-a-difference-in-their-fields-even-if-they-feel-small-and-insignificant/ | 2024-04-17T09:13:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.953549 | 1,419 |
"PHILOSOPHY OF THE CIRCLE." 1921
Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986)
STERLING SILVER HAND MADE
Logo on the backside, pendant gr. chain gr
RETURN AND REFUND POLICY
Return and Refund policy. A great place to let your customers know what to do in case they are dissatisfied with their purchase. Having a straightforward refund or exchange policy is a great way to build trust and reassure your customers that they can buy with confidence. | <urn:uuid:031ddc07-0cfb-484b-b52f-5363227f998a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.khidekel-art-design.com/product-page/philosophy-of-the-circle-1921 | 2024-04-17T10:03:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.903012 | 111 |
Maker Monday: Let’s Try Building With Cardboard!
When the pandemic began, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh quickly began offering lots of digital programming to keep kids learning, making and playing while schools were closed. Among their offerings was a series of “Let’s Try” videos showing kids how to do fun, simple maker projects. In partnership with our friends at the Children’s Museum, we’ve begun sharing these videos as part of our rebooted Maker Monday series.
Here is the latest of these easy-to-follow videos: Let’s Try Building With Cardboard!
A note to kid makers: Please work with a parent or caregiver on every project and always be very careful when using tools of any kind.
Maker Monday mterials you’ll need:
- Cardboard (anything you have around the house will do!)
Instructions for great ways to build with cardboard:
- Take a piece of cardboard and bend around its natural creases to create rounded shapes.
- Use scissors to cut slots into pieces of cardboard that other pieces of cardboard could fit into.
- Snip a corner off one piece of cardboard, then use tape to attach it to a bent piece of cardboard to create a sturdy structure.
- Cut a slot into a folded piece of cardboard along the fold, then snip off parts of another piece of cardboard to create a tab. Insert the tab into the slot to connect the two pieces.
- Cut out four similarly sized triangles. Tape them together on one side of the cardboard pieces. Use one last piece of tape to finish the structure.
- Combine all these ways of crafting to build whatever you can dream up!
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Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. Play as Alex, a bright, rebellious teenager who brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party on an old military island. The night takes a terrifying turn when you unwittingly open a ghostly gate spawned from the island’s cryptic past. How you deal with these events, your peers, and the ominous creatures you’ve unleashed is up to you.
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PROGRAMME OF THE NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY “March 25, 1821” IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PLATANIAS
(Tavronitis, Gerani, Maleme, Kolymbari, Spilia, Voukoulies, Platanias)
Greek Independence Day is a national holiday celebrated annually in Greece on 25th March, commemorating the start of the War of Greek Independence in 1821.
This day is also one of the holiest days of the Greek Orthodox religion. It is the day of the Annunciation when the archangel Gabriel told Mary she would bear the Son of God.
10:00 Doxology at the Holy Church of Myrtidiotissa
10:40 Memorial service at the monument of those executed on Tavronitis beach and
laying of wreaths
11:00 Pupils’ Parade with the participation of Tavronitis Kindergarten-Primary School and
EPAL (Vocational Evening School)
10:30 Doxology at the Holy Church of Agia Marina in Kolymbari
11:00 Memorial service at the Memorial of the Fallenand laying of wreaths
Parade of a delegation of students from the Kolymbari Kindergarten, Primary School and Kolymvari Junior High School
09:30 Doxology at the Holy Church of Myrtidiotissa in Spilia10:30 Memorial service at the Heroes’ monument in Spilia
09:45 Doxology at the Holy Church of Evangelistria
11:00 a.m. Memorial service at the Fallen Memorial in lower Gerani
10:00 Doxology at the Holy Church of Agios Antonios in Maleme
Memorial service at the war memorial.
10.00 Doxology at the Holy Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Kato Platanias
10.30 Memorial service at the monument to the fallen at the Church area and laying of
10:00 Doxology at the Holy Church of Transfiguration of the Savior
10:50 Memorial service at the monument of the fallen (Voukolies square) and laying of wreaths
10:30 Pupils’ Parade with the participation of theKindergarten, Primary School and
High School of Voukoulies.
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Third-party subscription companies have become so aggressive in recent months, that The New York Times has now taken out its own full page ad to warn about this scheme.
Neal Stone told me a while back he almost fell for one of these bogus renewal notices.
"When I saw the charge for Sports Illustrated, I figured it was my annual renewal," he said. "Then I looked at the price, and it was $77," much more than he normally paid.
The New York Times says most of these third-party companies will renew your subscription for you, so they are not "scams" in the true sense of the word. But they take a healthy profit, and renew you at a very high price.
Warning signs that you should ignore It
Mary McCarthy, who subscribes to a half dozen magazines, told me it's tough knowing which are real.
McCarthy said "You could renew twice in the same year and be extending another 4 years ... it's just never ending!"
So how can you protect yourself?
- Make sure the card is from the real newspaper or magazine, and doesn't misspell any names. Look at the return address carefully.
- Pay by check, not credit card, so they cannot auto renew you for years to come.
- Check your subscription end date before renewing: If you still have 6 months left, don't bother renewing.
Otherwise you could end up doubling up on your subscription, and paying a third party company.
That way you don't waste your money.
Don't Waste Your Money is a registered trademark of the E.W. Scripps Co.
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Quality management according to ISO 9001
A quality management system (QMS), according to ISO 9001 for example, is a genuine management and control system. Therefore, the decision to introduce such a system forms part of a company's strategic decisions.
A quality management system (QMS) is deemed to prove that a company is capable of guaranteeing at any time the defined quality of its products and services. The company is thus able to focus more on its customers in order to acquire competitive advantages. The aim of a QMS is not only short-term tangible profits: a QMS acts on a medium- and long-term basis.
The chain reaction of a QMS can be defined as follows:
What do we mean by quality?
Quality is designated by “all of an organization’s economic and non-pollutant measures aimed at meeting the expressed or implicit needs of customers and of the company”.
How much quality? The (external) quality expressed by the customer is necessary to a company’s survival. But this is not enough. The company must guarantee that quality is achieved at prices consistent with the market (internal quality).
Quality management has therefore become necessary, since it costs less to prevent errors than to correct them at the end of the production process. Costs associated with errors are minimized when the company masters its processes, which are decisive for quality, and continuously improves its performances.
The ISO 9001 standard is the leading QMS certification worldwide. It describes in exemplary fashion the quality management system as a whole and serves as the basis for constituting a comprehensive QMS. You will find below the seven principles of quality management, described according to ISO 9001:
- Customer focus
- Engagement of personnel
- Process approach
- Evidence-based decision-making
- Relationship management
Three aspects are hugely important for the introduction of ISO 9001:
- Market strategy
In terms of market strategy, ISO certification is used by a company placed among the competition to prove the quality of its products and services. For manufacturers, suppliers and large international companies, certification is “virtually mandatory” to access mandates of a certain scale.
- A guaranteed future
The introduction of a QMS helps a company continue to develop its own potential. This is an excellent way for a company to organize and direct its future with greater peace of mind, despite change and modified framework conditions and requirements.
- Legal significance
In legal terms, the standard ISO 13485 (medical products) and the ISO 9000 series (any other product) are accepted as the single basis for certification by all national standardization and certification companies in Europe and worldwide.
Therefore, these standards present a very broad legal base. This is hugely important to companies operating on an international scale, particularly for product liability It is important to remember however, that standards are not, in themselves, legal in nature.
Fundamental rules of a QMS
A management system is an instrument making it possible to apply a company’s objectives in a targeted way. This means planning company procedures, executing these according to the planning, controlling success and correcting these if the desired result is not achieved.
Whilst the quality management system is represented by a diagram, it represents a PDCA cycle (plan, do, check, act). Moreover, it is necessary to begin with an analysis of the current state of the company – situational analysis – hence the term A-PDCA (A for analysis).
The cycle works in this way:
- During the preliminary phase, the plan is drawn up, which describes what, how and who is responsible for execution of the task. At the same time, a prediction is given as an objective, the expected result of the task.
- During the implementation phase, execution takes place according to the plan. A sub-cycle of rules can be introduced, in the case of large tasks/projects. The results are defined as effective objectives.
- At the time of control, the prediction and the effective objective are compared.
Adaptation measures are examined on the basis of the evaluation of the comparison:
- Does execution need to be modified?
- Does the plan need to be modified?
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- Jewish Learning
Simple and delicious. These potatoes are crispy on the outside, buttery on the inside, and seasoned to perfection with fresh herbs. Feel free to use just one type of potato. You can also mix and match the herbs to your liking. I found this combo especially flavorful but not overwhelming.
1 and 1/2 tablespoons fresh thyme
1 and 1/2 tablespoons fresh oregano
1 and 1/2 tablespoons fresh parsley (leaves only)
1 tablespoon cilantro (leaves only)
2 tablespoons butter, or more, to taste
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
In a small bowl, mix olive oil, seasoning, garlic, and all herbs. Place cut potatoes into a large bowl. Pour oil mixture over it and mix well.
Place onto a Gefen Parchment-lined baking pan in a single layer. Dot with small pieces of butter.
Bake for a total of one hour, removing the pan from the oven every 15 minutes to flip over the potatoes.
Remove from oven and cover baking pan with foil. This allows potatoes to steam and they get buttery soft.
Styling and Photography by Chavi Feldman
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WMA SCHOOL CAMP
Our solution to remote learning!
What is WMA School Camp?
School Camp is our solution to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are open from 6 am to 6 pm to provide a focused learning environment for your children so that they can complete schoolwork to train their brains and receive Taekwondo lessons to strengthen their bodies and build character!
We are an UNLICENSED childcare facility, which means students may come and go at any time. We are also not a tutoring facility. However, we can help students remember their schedules, deal with technical difficulties with technology and the internet, and keep them on task so they can succeed in this new learning situation.
What about drop off/pick up if schools go hybrid?
We have experience with hybrid scheduling and will offer both drop off and pick up for select schools at no extra cost for camp students.
Is the program safe?
We continue to stay updated and follow both CDC and Department of Education guidelines. All students and staff are required to wear masks indoors and maintain social distancing of 3 feet or more. In addition, students are required to report positive cases or exposures. Finally, we have plenty of disinfectant and hand sanitizer around to clean inorganic and organic surfaces!
Will my child under 10 need to wear a mask?
Yes, all students and staff will wear masks indoors, in addition to social distancing of at least 3 feet. When the weather is nice, we will train outside without masks and with 10 feet of social distancing.
Who can enroll in WMA School Camp?
Normally, our Before & After School Program is limited to only a certain number of schools due to pick up logistics. However, since we do not need to do this during camp, we can take students from any school, ages 5-12. Keep in mind that we cannot pick up from all schools in the hybrid model - send us a message to see if your school is on our pick up list!
Will school supplies be provided?
Students will need to bring their own laptops and tablets with chargers. They will also need headphones with microphones to avoid distracting other students.
In order to avoid contact risk, we ask that students bring their own pencils, paper, and other school supplies. We will have a few on hand in case someone forgets, but parents should not depend on this. We also ask that families provide most of these supplies so that we can keep camp affordable.
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Dorina Kosztin, Sergei Izrailev, and Klaus Schulten.
Unbinding of retinoic acid from its receptor studied by steered
Biophysical Journal, 76:188-197, 1999.
Retinoic acid receptor (RAR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes involved in cell growth, differentiation, and development. Binding of the retinoic acid hormone to RAR is accompanied by conformational changes in the protein which induce transactivation or transrepression of the target genes. In this paper we present a study of the hormone binding/unbinding process in order to clarify the role of some of the amino acid contacts and identify possible pathways of the all-trans retinoic acid binding/unbinding to/from human retinoic acid receptor (hRAR)-. Three possible pathways were exployed using Steered Molecular Dynamics simulations. Unbinding was induced on a time scale of 1 ns by applying external forces to the hormone. The simulations suggest that the hormone may employ one pathway for binding and an alternative "back door" pathway for unbinding.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Presents the Outcomes of Arab Women in Biofouling Management Workshop to IMO and member states and commits to funding further maritime environmental projects in 2023 alongside IMO.
On the 17th of May 2023, Saudi Arabia presented the outcomes of ‘Women in Biofouling Management Workshop’ to 175 member states as part of the celebrations for International Women in Maritime day on the 18th of May.
The Arab Women in Biofouling Management Workshop which took place took place in Jeddah between the 10th to 11th of May was very successful and featured 18 countries from the MENA region with two female representatives attending from each nation. The event was the first ever of its kind dedicated to women in biofouling management. It discussed issues faced by women in the biofouling sector as well as issues that arise from biofouling both economically and environmentally.
The presentation on the outcomes of the workshop on the 17th of May was well received with keynote addresses made by Ms. Hayat Al Yabis, the Alternate Permanent Representative for Saudi Arabia to the IMO, and Dr. Jose Matherickal, Director of the Department of Projects and Partnerships to the IMO. This was followed by a presentation on the tangible outcomes of the workshop which focused on three specific recommendations for women in the future. A particular announcement of note was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s commitment to funding GloNoise, GloFouling, and GloLitter in 2023 – 2024.
Hayat Al Yabis stated that “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia actively works to empower women in the maritime sector. We believe that encouraging more women to participate in biofouling management is critically important and we should peruse developing other female led groups that will enhance action and female empowerment in minimising the transfer of invasive aquatic species by shipping.”Saudi Arabia was also represented by Dr. Lina Euoni, Manager of Marine Planning and Monitoring, who spoke about her experiences as a facilitator and participant in the workshop.
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THE ITALIAN CHICKS takes you back to a time and place when life was simpler, and culture and traditions were respected and honored. This show is a blend of comedy, music, storytelling, and a little bit of dancing. You don’t have to be Italian to love this show, you just have to have a dysfunctional family.
Who attends the shows? The entire family…From the Matriarch down to the 3rd cousin.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this a “girls’ night out” – you just might meet your new husband there!
They will make you remember things you paid your shrink to forget ~!
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If you couldn’t make it to Austin last week for the hottest bashment party Texas, and certainly South by Southwest, has ever seen, never fear—LargeUp is on the road again, and this time we’re getting the party started in Miami during this year’s Winter Music Conference.
The Winter Music Massive, co-produced by Electric Punanny, has become something of a WMC tradition. Previous parties have featured performances from dancehall legends Mr. Vegas and Johnny Osbourne, as well as an international assortment of the best bashment DJs.
Hosted by Melanie Fiona, Rvssian and Gaby Duran, this year’s third-annual Winter Music Massive on Sat. March 22 features live performances from the Viking of Soca Bunji Garlin and his Vi-queen, Fay-Ann Lyons, and Jo Mersa Marley, and Jesse Royal.
Ms. Fiona will be getting back in touch with her Caribbean roots: the Guyanese-Canadian R&B diva got her start doing reggae, and has collaborated with Sean Paul, Shaggy and Stephen Marley.
But one of the best parts of organizing a party during WMC is you never know who might stop by… so mark your calendars, shine up your wining shoes, and don’t forget to RSVP! It all goes down this Saturday at the Alley Lounge, part of the LMNT complex in Miami’s Design District. | <urn:uuid:92d1388b-1acf-41c4-b296-7e276b5c0cd8> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.largeup.com/2014/03/18/largeup-x-222-worldwide-present-winter-music-massive-2014/ | 2024-04-17T09:54:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.952941 | 306 |
NOTRE HISTOIRE - OUR STORY
L'Art de Vivre is a French expression which translated means "the art of living". For the French, especially in southern France, the art of living means profiting from the riches that daily life has to offer. The beauty of the sunrise, a delicious meal, a delicate glass of wine, or an evening spent with friends...At L'Art de Vivre we feel that these are moments best shared surrounded by beautiful table and home decor accessories. What better place than one's home to celebrate life - with L'Art de Vivre!
In February of 1997, I met and fell in love with a Frenchman, while he was on vacation in Canada. Soon after, I was off to Paris, France to follow my heart and my man! Our relationship blossomed and so did my love of France and the French culture.
Travelling together around the romantic French countryside, we discovered the beautiful areas of southern France. While in the Bouche du Rhone area, Gérard introduced me to the beautiful cotton fabrics particular to Provence. The history, the rich colours, and the excellent quality of these fabrics impressed me. I wasn't going home without some for myself and gifts for friends.
Soon Gérard and I realized we were onto a great business idea! Why not import these delightful Provençal inspired prints into Canada? Why not share with Canadians our love of the Provençal countryside and French culture? I had studied textiles earlier in my education, and was an avid sewer. I knew that the variety of textiles was limited in Canada, and that to find the so-called, "french country" look was almost impossible. Gérard set about laying the groundwork for the business in France. A couple months later, he followed me back to Canada, and our company, L'Art de Vivre was born!
We began importing our Provençal fabrics into Canada in late 1997. From our home-based studio, began transforming these fabrics into elegant table and home decor accessories. Beginning with tablecloths of all shapes and sizes & coordinating napkins, our collection has grown to include placemats, cushion covers, table runners, valances, seat cushions, and a variety of custom works.
L'Art de Vivre's collection can be purchased through our website, at various Farmers' markets and Canadian craft & trade shows during the year. For over 20 years, we have had a market stall every Saturday at the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market in Edmonton's historical Whyte Avenue area. We are currently taking a break from our weekly market.
Experience the beauty and colours of Provence...
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San Diego : Children’s Museum Plan Is Confirmed
A plan to make the Children’s Museum of San Diego the primary tenant in Balboa Park’s historic House of Charm was formally approved Monday by the San Diego City Council.
The museum will occupy most of the 48,000 square feet in the 74-year-old building when renovations to the crumbling structure on Balboa Park’s prestigious Prado are completed between 1991 and 1995.
The San Diego Art Institute will take up 7,500 square feet, 4,000 of it on the ground floor, and the Old Globe Theatre will use a 16,600-square-foot sub-basement, to be excavated at city expense, for rehearsal space. The city will pay for the work because it will bolster tourism, said Dave Twomey, assistant director of the city’s Park and Recreation Department.
The 9-0 vote, which formalized a plan endorsed by the council Oct. 16, fulfills a pledge made by Mayor Maureen O’Connor during her January State of the City address to create a children’s museum and workshop in the House of Charm as part of a 1989 “Year of the Child.”
It also ends a sometimes bitter competition among city cultural institutions for coveted space along the park’s well-traveled main boulevard.
Renovations to the House of Charm are part of a massive overhaul of the park being financed by a 1-cent increase in the city’s hotel-room tax. The total cost of park renovations will exceed $100 million.
Under the council-approved plan, the San Diego Hall of Champions has 180 days to decide whether it will move to the park’s Federal Building, where it would undergo a major expansion financed by a $4-million donation. If that happens as expected, the Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art would then move into the Hall of Champions’ vacated space in the Casa de Balboa.
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Tonight on Telemundo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discussed immigration with María Celeste Arrarás. The interview, taped last Friday, was dubbed into Spanish (video below), but many outlets (CNN, The Daily Caller, Buzzfeed and Bloomberg) published several quotes in English about what Clinton told Arrarás:
When asked if she thinks Obama has done everything within his executive power to improve the current immigration system, Clinton cited the President’s increased enforcement of deportation laws as a mistake by the administration.
“I think he’s done a lot,” Clinton said, but added that Obama enforced the deportation laws “very aggressively during the last six and a half years” in part to get Republicans on board with comprehensive immigration reform.
“It was part of a strategy; I think that strategy is no longer workable,” she said. “So therefore I think we have to go back to being a much less harsh and aggressive enforcer.”
While Clinton said felons and violent people still need to be dealt with, she said she has met the wives and children of people who were deported over minor offenses. She reiterated her call for “comprehensive immigration reform” and a path to citizenship, but said, “In the meantime, I’m not gonna be breaking up families.”
“And I think that is one of the differences,” she continued. “But I totally understand why the Obama administration… did what they did under the circumstances. But I think we’ve learned that the Republicans, at least the current crop, are just not acting in good faith.”
Clinton’s remarks from the Telemundo interview are just the latest examples of a topic the Democratic candidate has struggled with over the years. As the Clinton campaign begins to proactively court the U.S. Latino vote, the questions surrounding her views on immigration still linger. In the mid 1990s, for example, when Clinton was First Lady, her views reflected a much more moderate view:
Around the same time of that interview, a 1996 commercial highlighted President Bill Clinton’s enforcement-heavy immigration stance, even pointing out “a record 160,000 deported.” Buzzfeed ran a deeper dive into this issue earlier this year.
Are voters 20 years later now seeing a Clinton who will be committed to comprehensive immigration reform, or are her latest comments just another example of “Hispandering?” Furthermore, will Clinton ever specifically address another issue that has weighed heavily on the U.S. Latino community: the rise of immigration detention?
Send Them Back?
Last summer, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Clinton about what the United States should do to the growing number of unaccompanied minors who were escaping a crisis in Central America and crossing the border. This was Clinton’s answer:
“They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are, because – there are concerns about whether all of them can be sent back, but I think all of them that can be should be reunited with their families.”
“We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.”
Earlier this summer, Clinton revisited the topic and said this at press conference in Las Vegas:
“Specifically with respect to children on the border, if you remember, we had an emergency, and it was very important to send a message to families in Central America: Do not let your children take this very dangerous journey.”
“Now I think we have a different problem. Because the emergency is over, we need to be moving to try to get people out of these detention centers, particularly the women and children. I think we need more resources to process them, to listen to their stories, to find out if they have family in this country, if they have a legitimate reason for staying. So I would be putting a lot of resources into doing that, but my position has been and remains the same.”
Nonetheless, the candidate’s call to “get people of out of these detention centers” is still at odds with a July 2015 article from The Intercept, which reported that “lobbyists for two major prison companies [the GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America] are serving as top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton.” These private prison companies have had a long history with immigration detention. A new VICE article about the private prison industry stated that “Clinton’s Ready for Hillary PAC received $133,246 from lobbying firms linked to GEO and CCA.”
The VICE article also added:
The candidates aren’t talking about it either: The campaigns for Clinton, [Jeb] Bush, [Marco] Rubio, and [Donald] Trump ignored repeated VICE inquiries about private prisons. But activists say industry lobbying may have shaped the “detention-bed mandate,” a policy that requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep at least 34,000 people locked up — mainly in private prisons — while they wait to appear in immigration court. It costs taxpayers $2 billion a year for ICE to meet the quota.
UPDATE: On October 23, just weeks after the VICE article, the Clinton campaign said it would no longer accept money from private prison lobbyists. The Huffington Post reported:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pledged Thursday to ban the use of private prison companies if elected president, and in the meantime will stop accepting campaign contributions from those corporations and the lobbyists who work for them.
All previous donations will be given to charity, the former secretary of state’s campaign said.
“Hillary Clinton has said we must end the era of mass incarceration, and as president, she will end private prisons and private immigrant detention centers,” campaign spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement Thursday night. “She believes that we should not contract out this core responsibility of the federal government, and when we’re dealing with a mass incarceration crisis, we don’t need private industry incentives that may contribute — or have the appearance of contributing — to over-incarceration.”
So which Hillary Clinton will U.S. Latino voters see when it comes to the immigration issue? The one who nows says she will be “a much less harsh and aggressive enforcer” than President Obama (‘The Deporter-in -Chief“) or the candidate who still has many more questions to answer about her own immigration positions?
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Your pets are subject to any of the same kinds of medical emergencies as humans can be, with some issues like poisoning, there can be an even higher risk. However, with animals, it can be harder to tell what’s wrong medically, as they cannot communicate verbally. It can be difficult to know what a true emergency is or what can wait for a general appointment. You have to become adept at reading their cues and looking for signs that an injury or condition is beyond routine. The following overview can help to provide a guide regarding what situations could require emergency treatment from Laurelwood Animal Hospital:
Sudden upset stomach/vomiting
Severe skin burn/rash
Trauma, such as being hit by a car
Severe bleeding from an orifice
Complications while delivering kittens/puppies
Lack of appetite
Sudden low energy
Inability to urinate or defecate
Refusing to socialize/personality changes
These are some of the signs and symptoms that emergency care is required, but even here there can be some gray areas. As with people, it is always best to err on the side of caution. It’s never wrong to bring your pet to Laurelwood Animal Hospital, or at least call to speak with our Laurelwood team to determine the best course of action for your dog, cat, or other pet.
Laurelwood Animal Hospital is open 5 days per week and can bring wisdom, experience, and expertise to every pet emergency situation. We can provide insights and advice over the phone, and we also have expert diagnostic tools and techniques in-house. We can rapidly and efficiently determine the cause of your pet’s distress even if it is not immediately obvious. Ultimately, you know your pet better than anyone else. If your intuition is telling you that something is seriously wrong, you are likely correct. Again, it is never a mistake to bring your pet in for emergency care when a serious issue is suspected. The stakes of not bringing them in and being wrong are just too high. | <urn:uuid:4a4f1371-1e97-4b11-b01f-a98e92ad3128> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.laurelwoodvets.com/emergency/ | 2024-04-17T08:57:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.953175 | 420 |
New clients are the lifeblood of legal practice, and a scattershot marketing approach is counterproductive to securing them.
It is far more effective to develop a marketing plan that identifies and evaluates the kind of clients the practice wants and needs. The best way to create a marketing plan is by identifying hypothetical client targets and the work those clients can or may give you.
Start by creating a profile of your ideal client and develop a marketing strategy that focuses on that target, not on everyone. You can increase your revenue dramatically by focusing on the demographics, occupation, location, financials and other key characteristics. That is essential to ensuring that you are providing the kind of service the client wants and that you are securing the kind of work that you want.
It goes without saying, of course, that you should be technically able to address the client’s legal issue. Equally important, however, is being able to address the matter in the way that the client wants. If a potential new client wants a lawyer who comes at the opposing side with a hammer, and you prefer to operate with a scalpel, the engagement will not be satisfying to either party.
Going through the process of detailing expectations enables you to avoid a client with unrealistic or unacceptable demands. That is particularly true if you discover that you are the third or fourth lawyer that the client has approached to handle the matter. Such a client will often express irritation with delay, chronically complain about everything, demand constant or instant attention, or expect unrealistic hand-holding.
Budgets are another aspect of the process. Clients should have in mind how much money they want to spend to resolve a problem. A higher initial cost may be acceptable if the long-term return on investment justifies it.
Sometimes a legal problem is large enough that spending big sums on it is justified. Most issues, however, involve everyday costs of doing business. It makes no sense to budget spending $2 million to try a case if a $100,000 settlement will meet the client’s objectives.
Such a marketing approach defines what your practice really is (or should be) and who best can use those services. That can change over time, depending on how your skills and interests evolve, how the economy is doing, and other factors. Learn where to find your target market and think about how you can best reach them to let them know that what they need is within your scope of abilities.
Firms grow based on their clients. Lawyers must look for clients with growth potential. In other words, “commodity” work will not result in high and profitable growth. Highly focused and “high-end” work will result in higher revenue and profits.
When you choose clients who perceive the work you do as having high value, you will be able to reflect that in your fee — and you will have a far more personally satisfying practice.
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