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Directed by Tate Taylor. Starring Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney
THE PLOT: Since she sees her and her seemingly perfect life from the train as it passes her home every morning, Rachel (Emily Blunt) develops a fascination with Megan (Haley Bennett), who seems to have everything that Rachel wants in life – “She’s what I lost, she’s everything I want to be”. One morning, however, Rachel sees something out of the ordinary, and finds herself drawn into a missing persons case.
THE VERDICT: Based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel of the same name, ‘The Girl on the Train’ not only follows the fad of films with the word “Girl” in the title – ‘Gone Girl’, ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ – but is a strong thriller with plenty of twists and turns to keep the audience guessing.
Emily Blunt is on wonderful form as Rachel. Not only is Blunt’s drunk acting top notch, but she gives Rachel a fire and a fragility that makes the character compelling. Haley Bennett continues her current run of choosing strong roles as the manipulative and damaged Megan, and Rebecca Ferguson, although Anna is a somewhat loathsome character, makes her rounded and watchable. Luke Evans, Lisa Kudrow, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez and Laura Prepon are sadly underused, but Justin Theroux has a whale of a time with the protective but secretive Tom.
Erin Cressida Wilson’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ novel stays true to the book for the most part, although switching between character perspectives and stories feels a little more clunky on screen than it does on the page. The audience is given a chance to understand the female characters – even though there is an argument to be made that these vulnerable women are taken advantage of in the film, and painted badly – but Rachel is the woman around whom the story revolves. The mystery is carefully built throughout the film, which keeps the audience engaged, and as well as elements from the original story being removed, new characters have wisely been introduced for the film in order to keep it moving.
As director, Tate Taylor amps up the unsettling feel of ‘The Girl on the Train’, which starts from the opening moments, and carefully builds suspense as the story unfolds. The performances are well directed – particularly Blunt – and the pace of the film is well structured, and keeps moving as Rachel tries to fit the pieces of the puzzle together. There are some times when elements of the film are skimmed over and feel unsatisfying, and a certain character’s behaviour in the climactic moments of the film is rather problematic, but for the most part, Taylor has easily made the jump from the gentler ‘Get on Up’ and ‘The Help’ to this taut and engaging thriller.
In all, ‘The Girl on the Train’ is a carefully constructed thriller, with a slight Noir-esque, ‘Gas Light’ feel about it. The adaptation from book to screen is strong and Emily Blunt has rarely been better as she is as Rachel. There are issues with the film – particularly in the final act – but ‘The Girl on the Train’ is still suspenseful and entertaining.
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How To Eat Fast Food and Stay Healthy?

In our fast paced society, it is not possible to completely fast food. Millions of people already subsist on fast food on a daily basis. This could have a serious effect on their waistlines and overall health. It is important that you make healthier and smarter choices in your lifestyle. If you need to eat fast food more than occasionally due to your busy lifestyle, it should become a part of your healthy diet. Fast food is meant to be practical and easily accessible to many people. However, the fast preparation could mean high fat and calories content, as well as low nutritional values. Fast food is cheap and convenient, but it could wreak havoc on our health. The next time you go to a fast food restaurant during your busy workdays, you should start to make healthier choices.

When you go to the fast food restaurant, you should choose one that also offers grilled foods, not just fried ones. Fried food could contain excess calories and unhealthy trans fat. You should make sure that fast food won’t affect your weight loss goals. Chicken is a common part of fast food diet and you could get better results with grilled chicken sandwich. Chicken typically offers less fat and calories, compared to beef. If there’s no chicken option in the restaurant, it is a good idea to choose junior burger without cheese. If you still can’t let go of French fries yet, you should choose a smaller portion.  This is essential if you want to become more committed to your overall fitness goal. This can be achieved by eliminating harmful ingredients cooked using improper methods from your daily diet.

If possible, you should remove mayo, ketchup, dips and sauces. If you can’t do that, try to limit the amount. In reality, people consume too much condiments and sauce in fast food restaurants, which overpower the original taste of the food. You can be surprised at how good the food is, if you add much less condiments. Also, ketchup and barbecue sauces could be loaded with sugar. You should also know that regular mayo sauces in fast food restaurants are high in calories and fat. If you prefer to have them in your food, you should practice moderation. Among condiments that you choose in fast food restaurants, mustard is often the better choice. You should also be careful when choosing green salads, because they are not automatically healthy.

Salads in fast food restaurants are often laden with bits of fried chicken, cheese and bacon. They could contain as much fat and calories as typical burgers. You should know your meal better. You should choose salads that are loaded with proper veggies. Sources of protein in salad should be beans, fish and low-fat portions of turkey and chicken. Choosing the wrong type of salad could sabotage your healthy eating efforts. As an example, you shouldn’t allow the salad to become drowned in high calorie, high fat dressings.

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Traveling Vegans: BEST Vegetarian Restaurants in NYC

There are many different reasons why people go traveling. Your smartphone is full of friendly options to rent a car in one click or book a restaurant. Buy the way; you are able to learn everything about the car price and characteristics beforehand as much as about restaurants. There is a question: How can you find a good restaurant while traveling if you are vegetarian?

So, if you are crazy about vegetarian food, you shouldn’t change your lifestyle. Let’s talk about New York vegetarian opportunities. Everybody knows that NY is a huge city. So, it is time to discover best of the best vegetarian eateries in every touristic NY district. You’ll be impressed by the variety of new dishes of broccoli and carrots!

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Where in NY: East village

Can you imagine a big juicy burger without meat? It’s impossible! How about tasty vegan buns, tofu, tomato slices and other green components? What about French fries? You are offered to take salad of broccoli and eggplants spiced with hot chili. It’s more than enough to feel satisfied!

Where in NY: Chinatown

Vegetarian palace welcomes you with a wide choice of vegetarian delicacies. You should try fried rice with adding broccoli, beans, asparagus, and pseudo-beef instead of meat. Of course, the prices are not low. Only cash is available to pay with.

Where in NY: Nolita

This is a unique rplace that offers morning, dinner, and evening menu. What do you want for breakfast? You can take an avocado toast, baked with curry, coriander, and mustard seeds. For dinner you can take a sandwich. Evening menu offers vegetarian pasta with ginger and wheatgrass.

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Where in NY: Chelsea

This is a place where you can try traditional Mediterranean cuisine. Nevertheless, all dishes are made of green ingredients and free from meat. This is the most popular vegetarian place to eat in Manhattan. What about menu? You are recommended to try such vegetarian delicacies as fried artichokes, or popular cast-iron socca with smoked hummus. This is the best place to have dinner with friends.

Where in NY: Brooklyn

If you have enough money for taking dinner in Brooklyn, you should come to Govidan’s. You can find a unique combination of Indian and Western cuisines. So, how to spend your $15 in the best way? Just order a breakfast set that includes soup, salad, eggplants, cabbages, and potatoes. Also, you can order spinach, cabbages, and cheesecake.

Where in NY: Greenwich village

This restaurant is specialized in soya dishes. But you can combine it with the variety of crab meat, fried seafood, poultry, beans, even hamburgers, sandwiches, and cheesesteak. You can add something like vegan beer or wine on your choice.

Where in NY: Lower east side

Obviously, vegan cuisine is mostly based on vegetables. Here, in JaJa, the dishes are made of eggs, avocados, beans, and other ingredients of traditional Mexican cuisine except for met. There are dishes that are made of How about beats and pumpkin empanadas? The taste is impressive!

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Where in NY: Bushwick

Just imagine, big bright plates full of fried pees, beats and red lentil. Does it look tasty? What else did you expect? Ethiopian cuisine is rich in vegetarian dishes. Also, it is rich in coffee. You can take part in coffee ceremony for free. It looks interesting and aromatic. Besides, you have a chance to learn how to make traditional Ethiopian coffee.

Where in NY: Williamsburg

This is a busy place in this part of NY. In short, this is the best visiting place for people to take some fast and comfortable food in the close to Brooklyn area. The menu is complex and vegetarian. So, what about nachos with cookies and souses? Also, you can take burritos for dinner, stuffed with chorizo, pepper, cabbages, and tofu. The choice is big. You can take tasty vegetarian sandwiches for lunch with sour-crout, pseudo-beef, and greens. What is for dessert? You can choose one of more than 10 sorts of cocktails!

Where in NY: Greenwich village

This charming cafe shows you all advantages of vegetarian life. Actually, there are two cafes in the city on different locations. This is a place where people go with their families to enjoy French fries, vegetarian ravioli, pumpkin sandwiches. You can also take a cheesecake with peanut butter, or raw pie.

It is not a problem for find vegan restaurant in such a big city as New York. They are can boast a wide selection of vegan dishes. There was the time when you were hard to eat out at all if you chose a vegan lifestyle. Nowadays, there are many eating spots that support vegan dining. Hope, you could find a new place to try vegan food in New York that you knew nothing about.

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A 2014 Volvo Xc70 Fwd gets up to 18 miles per gallon in the city, up to 26 miles per gallon on the highway. This means a 2014 Volvo Xc70 Fwd can get up to 21 miles per gallon overall.

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Year 10 students enjoy Japanese luncheon

On Wednesday May 16, the Year 10 Japanese class enjoyed a delicious lunch at San Kai Japanese Restaurant in the heart of South Brisbane.

Mains such as Chicken Karaage, Chicken Teriyaki, Beef Yakiniku and Sushi were accompanied by miso soup, salad and rice. It was lovely to witness some students sampling Japanese foods and condiments (such as wasabi and miso soup) for the first time.

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Fortune - John Elkann: Fiat's fresh face < 5min

Being in Turin also meant more opportunities to spend time with his grandfather Gianni. They met often for meals and long conversations about business. Slowly, says Elkann, the outlines of a future somewhere within the family firm began to take shape. Yet he was in no way prepared for the brief conversation that took place at Villa Frescot, the Agnelli family home in the pine-clad hills overlooking Turin, when he was 21. ... An older Agnelli cousin, who was being groomed for the capo position, had died suddenly, leaving a board seat open at Fiat. After lunch that day, Elkann recalls, his grandfather said, " 'I'm thinking about the appointment on the board, and I think it should be you.' I wasn't expecting that. I asked him, 'Do you think it makes sense?' " ... Fearing Morchio might quit if he didn't get what he wanted, Elkann flew to Geneva for a secret meeting with Marchionne. ... He had been appointed to Fiat's board a year and a half earlier, but the fact is, he was running a company that tests toasters and baby toys. "I had never made a car or a tractor," he says now. "I really didn't know s**t."

Inc. - What It's Like to Run a Company in the Most Dangerous Places on Earth 5-15min

His customers include the Defense Department and various spy agencies. He has about 200 people on the payroll, most of whom go to work every day in places where they could very well get shot or blown up--Iraq, Afghanistan, Ghana, Djibouti, Somalia, and Libya, to name a few. They guard buildings, protect VIPs, train foreign soldiers, and do a lot of office work, too: "Our specialty," says Patriot Group COO Rob Whitfield, "is providing sometimes common services in real crappy places." ... As a veteran, Craddock knows about war--what it is to confront bad guys face-to-face, to lose a friend in combat, to endure long separations from family, and then to wonder, once you're out, whether you'll ever again do anything as focused, as intense, as in-your-face important as what you did in uniform. As an entrepreneur, he also knows about business--what it is to risk everything on a proposal that goes nowhere, to be cut off by your banker, to drain your 401(k)--and ultimately what it feels like to succeed in a notoriously corrupt industry that's closely regulated, intensely scrutinized, rife with unsavory characters ("Some of the folks who work for us--I wouldn't want to be on their bad side, consistently"), and beholden like no other to the fickle winds of geopolitics. ... Total Defense Department spending on contractors--including those supplying weapons and R&D as well as services--peaked at $412 billion annually, and is down more than 30 percent since 2009. Among the factors: troop drawdowns, shrinking budgets, and a deteriorating business climate marked by intense congressional scrutiny, stricter oversight in the field, and heightened public distrust. ... Ironically, as spending drops, the relative importance of the private sector grows. Contractors deliver continuing access to talented people the military can't otherwise retain and instant access to short-term skills.

Inc. - Meet the $21 Million Company That Thinks a New iPhone Is a Total Waste of Money 12min

Wiens, 33, is co-founder and CEO of iFixit, a company whose mission, he says, is to "teach everybody how to fix everything." On iFixit's website is a vast library of step-by-step instruction sets covering, well, let's see: how to adjust your brakes, patch a leaky fuel tank on a motorcycle, situate the bumper sensor on a Roomba vacuum cleaner, unjam a paper shredder, reattach a sole on a shoe, start a fire without a match, fill a scratch in an eyeglass lens, install a new bread-lift shelf in a pop-up toaster, replace a heating coil in an electric kettle, and--iFixit's specialty--perform all manner of delicate repairs on busted Apple laptops and cell phones. More than 25,000 manuals in all, covering more than 7,000 objects and devices. Last year, according to Wiens, 94 million people all over the world learned how to restore something to tiptop working condition with iFixit's help, which frankly was a little disappointing. Wiens's goal was 100 million. ... IFixit makes about 90 percent of its revenue from selling parts and tools to people who wouldn't know what to do with them if iFixit weren't also giving away so much valuable information. The rest comes from licensing the software iFixit developed to write its online manuals, and from training independent repair technicians, some 15,000 so far, who rely on iFixit to run their own businesses. ... Apple doesn't report just how huge that repair revenue is, but trade journal Warranty Week estimates that one proxy for that--sales of Apple's extended-warranty repair program, AppleCare--delivered the company a staggering $5.9 billion worldwide in 2016. ... "I'm really concerned about the transition in society to a world where we don't understand what's in our things," he says. "Where we are afraid of engineering, afraid of fact, afraid of tinkering. When you take something like a phone or voice recorder and you take it apart and you understand it enough to be able to fix it, a switch flips in your brain. You go from being just a consumer to being someone who is actually a participant."


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The Los Angeles Times - It's brother and sister against brother and sister in bitter fight over control of Frank Zappa's legacy < 5min

The Zappa Family Trust owns the rights to a massive trove of music and other creative output by the songwriter, filmmaker and producer — more than 60 albums were released during Zappa’s lifetime and 40 posthumously. Like the intellectual property of many rock stars, the Zappa archives controlled by the trust are potentially worth at least tens of millions of dollars, according to one music insider. ... Since the October 2015 death of Zappa’s wife, Gail, however, their children have become embroiled in a feud over control of the trust, which is millions of dollars in debt, pitting one brother and sister against another brother and sister. At issue is not just a celebrated artistic legacy, but even which of the children can perform using the Zappa name and profit from it. ... Thanks to a decision by their mother, he and his younger sister, Diva, 36, share control of the trust — to the dismay and anger of their two older siblings, Dweezil, 46, and Moon, 48, who got smaller portions of the trust than their younger siblings.

Financial Times - Tata in turmoil: the battle inside India’s biggest business 17min

This is the Tata long familiar to Indians and business watchers around the world: a group that tied itself to the principles of public service and humane treatment of workers and communities, a century before “corporate social responsibility” became a buzzword. ... Since Jamsetji set up his small trading company in 1868, it has expanded into a major name in global business, with annual turnover exceeding $100bn. Even amid this huge growth, it retained a name for stable leadership: in the first 144 years after it was founded in Mumbai, the group had only five leaders, all drawn from Jamsetji’s descendants. ... But this carefully guarded reputation for ethics and stability, a source of pride for Tata’s 660,000 employees and India itself, is now threatened by an unprecedented crisis. The upheaval began in October last year when Cyrus Mistry, the first chairman drawn from outside the founding family, was suddenly dismissed without explanation, exposing seething tensions between him and his predecessor Ratan Tata.


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New Street gardens in bloom

Free workshops continue at New Street Gardens with Wobbly Circus workshop on 6th August and a clay oven build with locally based Gary Dalton and Richie Murphy on 9th August.

Sunday service, featuring live bands, acoustic sessions and DJ’s, takes place every Sunday in the gardens from 1 till 6pm.

International Picnic weekend will be held on 23rd and 24th August and will include music, food, workshops, performances and lots more.

And on Sunday, August 31st the Waterford Diversity Festival is coming to gardens, with live bands playing from 2 till 6pm.

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The Wheel and the Shell

Well that was a lovely, long, bank holiday weekend. I headed out to Berlin, but it was more for socializing that it was for photography and I didn’t take too many pictures unfortunately. By the time I did head out there on the final day I was exhausted, and spent most of my time enjoying just walking around and getting a feel for the place rather than trying to find a location and angle to shoot from.

I was stupidly tired last night when I got home, so my plan of processing an image for today’s post before going to sleep just did not happen. Instead, I fell asleep under my Macbook and awoke 9 hours later, so had to process this one at around 7am this morning. I chose a night time image because it simply doesn’t need to have much done to it; I simply did a bit of sharpening, counter-intuitively followed by some denoise.

I hope everyone else had a lovely weekend.

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Chesapeake Energy CEO Gets Fracked

By | May 2, 2012

In the annals of corporate perks, Chesapeake Energy made the Top 10 list by allowing co-founder and CEO Aubrey McClendon to buy into 2.5 percent of every well the oil and gas company drilled.  Even better, Mr. McClendon paid for the very lucrative perk with personal loans he arranged with companies Chesapeake did business with such as Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, an innovative new spin on payola.

The story gets even better.  At first, the Company, through its general counsel, said that the Chesapeake board “was fully aware” of the very comfy financing arrangements.  But then with the glare of media lights and the scorn of shareholders upon them, the board walked it back and provided a public clarification that it was only “generally aware” of the deals that had Mr. McClendon use his stakes in the Chesapeake wells as collateral.  Not sure how close “generally” is to “fully” but it looked to provide some cover.

The parsing of words did not do much to quell the shareholder outrage and today word comes that Chesapeake’s directors have forced Mr. McClendon to step down as Chairman.  All this comes after shareholder outrage last year forced the board to rejig Mr. McClendon’s compensation to make it performance-based, a concept that seemingly took some time to reach the old-boy and one-girl board in Oklahoma.

Chesapeake, which calls itself “America’s Champion of Natural Gas” on its website homepage, touts “Bold Moves, Big Future” but unfortunately, Mr. McClendon’s bold moves for his personal gain combined with  rock-bottom natural gas prices have smacked the Company’s stock price and made many question the oversight and independence of its board.  The board of directors’ influence on a corporation’s reputation is probably greater now than it ever has been and missteps can counteract even the best corporate responsibility programs.

Directors need to be not only on top of all that goes on in the companies they serve but also the reputational impact of what they do and what they say.  New regulations on things like “say on pay” (as Citigroup recently found out) are just part of the brighter spotlight and great scrutiny on boards.  Communications expertise and issues/crisis management counsel must no longer stop at the executive suite.  Smart boards, when faced with situations like Chesapeake, need to examine closely not only their words, but the optics, because it all plays out from share price to corporate standing to the bottom line.

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ThinkingSome of us are still cozy despite the heaps of snow covering the ground outside. The kids should have had a snow day on Tuesday, but the school district didn’t agree. When I came home for lunch, I couldn’t get into our driveway, and at least an inch of snow fell while I was eating. Brooke’s mom called and we decided to give permission for Moon and Brooke to miss their last few class periods. The girls arrived while I was still home, and were generous enough to clean the car off for me.

Teenagers can be so awesome.

Tonight Peter had a band concert, which is always enjoyable for us because it’s the only time we actually see him play his instrument. His section sounded pretty good, and he provided much entertainment for us by blowing kisses to the crowd during the applause, etc. And of course he was wearing shorts with his band t-shirt.


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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Once Upon A Time: One Will Die

ABC has posted an extended preview of the next episode of Once Upon A Time, entitled, The Miller's Daughter - about the first 8 minutes or so -- one their website. It gives you a glimpse into Cora's history, tells us that Rumple is in really tough shape and that there may be a fissure between Cora and Regina, just as Snow had hoped last week.

ABC has promised through a social media campaign that #OneWillDie and while I'm hoping that it's Cora, that would leave us without a major villain, since Hook is really minor league comparatively (and we visit Neverland later this season) and Rumple seems to be tamed lately - perhaps he's just lulling us into a false sense of security. There are also Internet rumors about a surprise couple getting together. I've always thought that Charming and Red had some tremendous chemistry, but I think the show backlash of killing Snow would be too great. Plus I would miss her. The death has to be Cora or Rumple and my money is on Cora.

Below is the shorter preview, for the extended preview, you need to go to the ABC website. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's episode. Are you?

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When we craft a graphic brand identity as brand strategists for the luxury real estate industry, there is always a purpose behind the design.  The purpose provides the CONTEXT for the brand.   The purpose is threefold:

1) To express your unique personality, priority values and core strengths;

2) To clearly state your extraordinary promise of value (in words and symbols) so that your target market instantly understands that you are the best match to their values and most pressing needs, and;

3) To SHARPLY CONTRAST YOU in relationship to your competition.

The process of designing the graphic brand identity is very exciting when you keep this context in mind.  Many talented people can simply create a a graphic brand identity for you. Without CONTEXT, it is not a brand. It most likely will result in an under performing graphic brand identity and thus, a colossal missed opportunity.

Taking our own preconceived ideas out of the equation, listening to YOU intently, and then staying true to YOUR essential nature (and the nature of your marketplace) is our guiding design principle. We practice this discipline by taking the time to quiet our minds and attune to Nature itself as often as possible.

We wanted you to have a visceral EXPERIENCE, right now, of this guiding design principle, not just an understanding of the words in this post. So, we went into our own backyard to photograph an exquisite transformation of Nature. The bottle-brush trees are bursting forth and putting on quite a show.  There is simply nothing on earth quite like this! Enjoy!

And, remember that your own brand, to perform its function to the fullest, must reflect the CONTEXT we define here.

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NAA Activity 2013

Since the beginning of 2013 NAA has been busy attending meetings all across the country.  The following is a short synopsis of the activities that NAA has participated in: 1/25/2013 - NAA participated and provided comments in the CARB Board Hearing at the South Coast Air Quality Management (SCAQMD) Headquarters in Diamond Bar, California.  The Board Hearing was to adopt the SCAQMD SIP without restrictions on LVP-VOC.  NAA was successful in opposing the LVP-VOC inclusion in the SIP. 1/28/2013 - NAA was the sole association presenting to...
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Public Health Impact Report.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate various consumer products, including food and drugs, for the protection of the people of the state. This bill, known as the Public Health Epidemic Prevention Act of 2013, would require the department to require the manufacturer or a group of manufacturers of a contributing product, as defined, to create, for approval of the department, a public health impact report (PHIR) containing specified information, including a list of adverse public health impacts and a mitigation plan for those impacts.

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Assistant Conservator

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You will be responsible for practical and advisory conservation support to the Engineering Furniture conservation section. Your priorities during the time leading up to the re-opening of the Royal Museum building will be on the Menu Wall Gallery and to be part of a team re-installing the five metre high Millennium Clock and associated technology objects.

You must have an appropriate degree and a further qualification in conservation or extensive relevant experience. It is vital that you have a strong theoretical understanding of material issues and treatments, and that you are an able, practical conservator having gained practical experience in a museums or similar environment. We would expect you to have experience or expertise particularly in metals conservation, with some experience of gallery / exhibition installation or decant of artefacts. Strong documentation and reporting skills are important, as is the ability to manage your workload to meet the deadlines for the display of objects.

This is a fixed-term contract until 30 June 2011.

Location: Edinburgh

Category: Conservation

Salary: £22,465 - £25,161 per annum plus membership of the Civil Service pensions scheme

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Assistant Conservator Paintings

3 days per week

Fixed-term for 2 years

You will condition check, document, provide recommendations for, and where appropriate, treat paintings requested for loan. You will work with other conservation team members in the preparation of National Portrait Gallery projects.

Full details of this and all other employment opportunities at the Gallery can be viewed at our website www.npg.org.uk/jobs or requested by e-mailing: Personnel@npg.org.uk. Closing date for returned applications is 9.00am Friday 23 July 2010.

Interviews on 18 August 2010.

Location: National Portrait Gallery

Category: Conservation

Salary: Pro rata £21,115 per annum

Type of Contract: C

Hours: PT

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Assistant Finance Manager (Temporary)

Working within our busy Finance department, you will assist in the maintenance of financial accounts and provide management accounting information. You should have at least two years’ experience in a finance environment and as a minimum have either a CCAB or AAT part-qualification with experience of accounts bookkeeping and reconciliations.

Location: National Portrait Gallery

Category: Financial

Salary: Pro rata £26, 000 per annum

Type of Contract: T

Hours: FT

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deadline: 2010-07-23

Assistant Programme Manager (Schools)

Victoria & Albert Museum

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified teacher, with design expertise, and a passion for museums to join the schools team at the V&A to assist the Schools Programme Manager with the preparation and delivery of the schools programme.

Location: South Kensington

Category: Education

Salary: £24,906 - £29,936

Type of Contract: C

Hours: FT

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Charlottesville YMCA Celebrates $35,000 Grant from Wells Fargo

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Some of the children got the chance to hold the check. Some of the children got the chance to hold the check.

The Piedmont Family YMCA Child Care Center will continue to subsidize child care costs thanks to a $35,000 grant. Members of the Wells Fargo team presented the check to YMCA staff Friday.

Wells Fargo Region Bank President Ravi Chandra said, "It feels great that we were able to be a part of this and being able to support a program that does so much good for these young kids and their families."

The grant will allow the center to stay in its Jefferson School location, which is easily accessible by public transportation and within walking distance from several neighborhoods.

Piedmont Family YMCA CEO Jessica Maslaney says the grant will also be used for scholarships. "What we'll be able to do with this is offer scholarships for low income families and families that need childcare the most."

Chandra says Wells Fargo hopes to continue to support the child care center in the future.

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Welcome to “CITIES of the FUTURE-H2020” International Brokerage Event

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Date(s) - 30/09/2016
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InterContinental Istanbul

Organized by the Turkey In Horizon 2020” project and TUBITAK National Coordination Office for EU Framework Programmes

The “Cities of the Future 2016” Brokerage Event will bring together 300 researchers, industry professionals, government officials and policy makers from Europe and Turkey.

The event will target the following H2020 calls:

  • ‘Smart and Sustainable Cities’ and ‘Energy Efficient Buildings’
  • ‘Sustainable Process Industries’ and ‘Circular Economy’
  • ‘The European Green Vehicles Initiative’
  • ‘Factories of The Future’

Cities of the Future 2016” is meant as a wider concept that encompasses cities’ overall energy and resource efficiency with profound economic, social and environmental impacts, resulting in a better quality of life. In this context ‘Green Vehicles’ play an essential role, as well as further advances in ‘Factories of the Future’ or ‘Sustainable Process Industries’, for increased resource efficiency, new markets, and new jobs.

This event provides a unique opportunity to connect not only with Turkish and European researchers but also with highly qualified research-performing SMEs, making this event an excellent platform to expand networks and create new partnerships for the upcoming calls in Horizon 2020.

Some funds are available for travel and accommodation for European participants. After your registration, we’ll get in contact with you.

Event Focus

  • Keynote Speeches from Turkey and the EU on latest trends and policies
  • Presentation of proposal ideas in 4 parallel workshops
  • Short, sharp 15 minute face-to-face meetings to foster effective networking
  • Poster sessions of the most successful projects with Turkish participation

Main Calls

  • SPIRE-Circular Economy
  • Smart and Sustainable Cities and Energy Efficient Buildings
  • Factories of the Future
  • The European Green Vehicles Initiative

How does it work?

  • Register and publish your collaboration offerings (Registrations open until 23 September)
  • Browse the participant list and book meetings with companies you are interested in
  • Two weeks before the event you receive your meeting schedule

Why participate

  • Present your ideas for proposals in the upcoming H2020 calls and find the right partners
  • Find new commercial/technological/research partners
  • Get the latest information on calls for Smart Cities, SPIRE, FoF and Green Vehicles

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The Educator Resource Center at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum offers extended Lesson Plans for K-12 students in all subject areas. The site can be browsed, searched, and sorted. Lessons list national standards. Require resources and materials are listed and links to related files are provided.

Don’t forget the three R’s (PreK-1) In this lesson, students survey fellow students on their recycling habits and use what they learn to design and test a bin that encourages improved recycling.

Designing an Early Civilization  (2-5) Students research early Asian civilizations to discover what civilizations require and then create a model of an ancient civilization using their research.

Community Minded (6-8) Students design solutions for the young, elderly, homeless, and others in their communities.

For a novel study of The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, Shipwrecked! Part 1 asks students in grades 6-8 to list survival needs and demonstrate how those needs will be met and in the Shipwrecked! Part 2  compare their own survival strategies with those of Karena.

Marketing for Drama Productions  (9-12) After reviewing the design process, students investigate marketing principles used in design to create a poster for a musical production.

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Series one of the hit line of Neopets Collector Figures by JAKKS Pacific, This set includes a 2 inch Faerie Bruce and Cloud Usul as well as an Orange Noil Petpet!

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Here at New Life Fellowship, we want to provide you with opportunities for you to get fellowship and get to know your church family—and this one's for the ladies!

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Ladies Life meets the first Tuesday of every month. Grab your neighbor, co-worker, best girlfriend, the one you look up to and the one you are pouring into and join us for night of good conversations and connecting.


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RFA RB Mike Bell to visit Seattle

Restricted free agent RB Mike Bell will visit the Seattle Seahawks in the next two days, according to online reports.

Bell is a restricted free agent tendered at a level with no compensation for the Saints should he leave. The Saints do have right of first refusal on any contract offer sheet Bell signs.

Bell has been a Saint since November 2008 and contributed to a runningback rotation this season as the Saints' made their Super Bowl XLIV run. He rushed 172 times for 654 yards, his best season since 2006 with Denver.

Bell missed an opportunity for immortality, slipping and falling on a goal line run (2:20) in the second quarter of the Super Bowl. After the run, NFL Films caught head coach Sean Payton angrily blaming the gaffe for Bell's decision in shoes.

Bell started three games for the Saints in 2009 but got most his action subbing for Pierre Thomas and Reggie Bush, scoring five touchdowns, four of them from inside three yards out and a fifth from seven yards out.

Younger RB Lynell Hamilton, a 2008 undrafted free agent who has fought his way to playing time with the Saints, may replace Bell in the closer's role in 2010. Hamilton scored three touchdowns in 2009, both from one yard out.

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Bright light in big city mystifies New Yorkers after transformer fire

Bright blue light is seen after a transformer explosion on Thursday at an electric power station in the New York City borough of Queens, U.S., in this picture obtained from social media on December 28, 2018. Twitter/@Eat_Work_Run/via REUTERS

A transformer explosion at an electric power substation in the New York City borough of Queens lit up the night sky with a bright blue light on Thursday, mystifying some residents, but officials said no one was injured in the incident.

“There was a boom and a bang and a flash of light,” said Jim Long, a spokesman for Fire Department New York.

“It’s all under control but we’re still getting calls from residents wondering what happened,” he said early on Friday.

The blue flashes that briefly lit up the night sky in the Astoria area of Queens, New York, shortly after 9 p.m. (0200 GMT) were caused by a power surge and electrical “arching” and sparked a transformer explosion and a small fire, said Con Edison spokesman Bob McGee.

There were no injuries, he said.

Social media lit up with videos and photos of the bright light in the night sky over New York City. The chatter continued into Friday morning.

“Why is the sky lit up bright blue in Queens New York City right now? Is it fireworks?” Louis Santoro, a New York City resident, wrote on Twitter.

One resident, Joe Calderone, told the New York Post: “Damn, I thought a UFO hit Con Ed.”

Con Edison’s McGee reassured residents after internet speculation that aliens or the villain Thanos from the recent Avengers’ movie “Infinity War” had invaded.

“No, it wasn’t space aliens,” he said.

“All power has been restored to normal. “But the videos online of the blue lights in the sky are still flying all over the internet,” McGee said.

The fire caused scattered outages, stalled some city trains and briefly blacked out LaGuardia Airport, which is located in Queens, because of a transmission dip, he said.

It also caused some flight cancellations and delays but all power and services were restored before midnight, McGee said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a message on Twitter that Con Edison was evaluating the extent of power outages in the area.

He said that travelers could expect delays through early Friday.

The cause of the incident was being investigated.


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Washington, July 19 (IANS) Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang has said economic cooperation between China and the US holds out a promising future thanks to Beijing’s long-term economic development trend and market potential.

“Cooperation is the only right choice for our two countries. The giant ship of China-US economic and trade relations is sailing on the right course,” Xinhua news agency quoted Wang as saying on Tuesday at a China-US business luncheon ahead of the first China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue.

China has been pushing forward economic restructuring and adhering to reform and opening-up in its economic development. These efforts have yielded tremendous progress over the past decades, said Wang.

The contribution of China’s consumption to economic growth jumped to 77 per cent in the first quarter of this year, up from 47 per cent in 2013, he noted.

The long-term certainty of China’s development and progress offers the most important external environment for foreign businesses in the country, said the Vice Premier.

As China is upgrading its economy, Wang said, there is far greater complementarity than competition between the world’s two largest economies. “The two countries have seen the space for cooperation expanded rather than narrowed.”

In order to address trade imbalances, Wang called on the US to relax its outdated regulations on export control, stressing that as the Chinese economy climbs higher on the value chain, there is huge market potential for US exports of advanced technologies.

In his speech, Wang also stressed the importance of cooperation between the Chinese and US business communities.

“Your long-standing support and active participation have helped to create an atmosphere in favour of cooperation rather than confrontation for China-US business ties and have contributed to the China-US economic relationship as it stands today,” Wang said.

Wang is scheduled to co-chair the first China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue together with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. It is one of four major dialogue mechanisms the two sides established in April.

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NYC terror attack suspect entered US through Diversity Visa Program

Authorities have revealed that the alleged ISIS fanatic behind Tuesday's deadly New York City slaughter, Sayfullo Saipav landed in America seven years ago under the Diversity Visa Program, he had come from Uzbekistan. The information is extremely important since President Trump and pro-American immigration reformers have been actively calling for the program's termination which liberally offers 50,000 visas to randomly selected citizens of countries with few immigrants in America.

Expressing his rage, President Trump has now proposed revisions to his 'extreme vetting' program. In his tweet, he called for an end of the Democrat Lottery Systems and is starting Merit Based immigration. He stated the importance of turning tougher and smarter.

Applicants under the DV program need to have a high school diploma or its equivalent, a minimum of two years of work experience in the last five years and a clean criminal record to qualify for the visa. The program was the result of the 1990 bill introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY. A member of the house at that time, his bill intended to offer a specified number of visas to 'diversity immigrants' from certain countries. The bill later became part of the larger House immigration bill, sponsored by Schumer and 31 others, Republicans included. The bill passed in bipartisan but contested vote of 231-192 in the House legislation and 89-8 in the Senate. President George H.W. Bush signed the bill in 1990.

An undated photo of Sayfullo Saipov was given by the St. Charles County Department of Corrections via KMOV. Officials, on anonymous conditions, identified the attacker of Tuesday, October 31, 2017 as Saipov who now faces charges of killing eight and injuring 11 in the New York City terror attack. He did so by allegedly driving a rented Home Depot truck into pedestrians in New York City.

The program has been under the radar numerous times. The latest, it was under the scanner is when the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act headed by Senator Tom Cotton wanted it scrapped. The Trump White House also supported it. It called the DV program 'outdated,' and serving questionable economic and humanitarian interests.

Responding to Trump's call for ending the bill, Schumer asked Trump to rescind proposed cuts to 'vital anti-terrorism funding' in his budget. He called it the real solution which did not like ending the program. Post Tuesday's attack, Schumer focused his comments in praising the NYP for their rapid response. He also expressed his grief and condolences for the injuries & loss of life due to the tragic attack.

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Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

The Galapagos Islands wildlife has fascinated us ever since the naturalist Charles Darwin brought them to the attention of the world through his remarkable journey of discovery in the early 1800s. His research in the archipelago forms the basis of what has become his revolutionary theory of natural election.
In subsequent years, this offshore island group of Ecuador has become a popular place for ecotourism. There are several places on Earth that offer such insights into our natural world intrigue and, for wildlife enthusiasts, the Galapagos vacation can be one of their most memorable life experiences. Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

Among the unique endemic species, the rare and endangered Galapagos Penguin is one of the most sought-after sightings. By 2017, after decades of declining population, researchers have seen a spurt in bird growth, and there appears to be some good news for the most endangered penguin species on the planet – and that’s also good news for wildlife lovers who visit the Galapagos holiday area. Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

A bonanza breeding

The reason for buying gold recently did not result in an overnight success. Many bird nests that have been used for the last 40 years have been destroyed by floods or followed by the Sea Iguanas. So, in 2010, a team of researchers from the University of Washington began working on a project that included the construction of 120 artificial penguin nests, with the goal of providing as many opportunities as possible to breed for the species.

The nest is made by digging the tunnel into the lava landscape, or by lava plate accumulation. The nest has been dubbed “penguin condo” and has been built on three island islands: Isabela, Bartolomé and Fernandina. The aim of the researcher is to ensure that when food availability is abundant (when the breeding is most likely to occur), the birds have access to a safe nest to protect their eggs and keep them cool.

The nest is monitored twice a year and in the last visit by researchers, the number of teenage penguins is more visible – and, in fact, they account for about 45% of the total population.

Current events

The increase in breeding is directly correlated with La Niña weather events, which bring rich and nutrient rich flows into the seas around the archipelago. In recent years the El Niño event (which brought the current slower and warmer, created a scarcity of food sources), consequently for the penguin population has been devastating. It is estimated that there are less than half of these days as in the 1979-73 and 1982-83 pre-El Niño years. Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

By providing a means for species to utilize favorable nesting conditions, artificial nests have played an important role in the regeneration of this population. In the hope of another La Niña in the spring of 2018, it is hoped that this breeding crush will continue and increase further. The Galapagos Conservancy has supported this program since 2013, and the body recognizes the valuable work of this dedicated group of researchers. Their long-term goal is to increase the population to a certain point so as to survive the adverse climate fluctuations, and representatives will return to the islands in February 2018 to examine the nest and share their findings.

A privilege of experience

For wildlife enthusiasts who visit the region on the Galapagos holidays, it is still a privilege and an unforgettable experience to see species in their natural habitat. In the coming years, the population can regain its prevalence over the last few decades – proving that in some cases, human intervention can be positive rather than harm world wildlife.

Great news for the Galapagos Penguin

Find Out What Is Fashion Marketing So You Can Cut Out The Competition

The fashion industry is massive, bringing in $ 1 trillion in gross revenue per year.

Yeah, that’s “trillion” with a “t.”

So what is fashion marketing? It’s the outreach you’ll need to separate your product from the competition and succeed in the cutthroat retail industry in the world.

Here are a few tips to help you get started and get an edge on the competition.

Have a Great Product and Know Your Niche
It all starts here, right?

A lot of people sell underwear, so if you’re selling underwear, it’s better to have something that sets it apart from the competition.

Better materials. A great story. An amazing fit.

Whatever the product is, you need to know what you’re selling and how it stacks up to the competition – so do your research before you develop your marketing plans.

It does not matter if you’re asking folks to “Click Here” to buy grillz or selling winter parkas. All successful fashion marketing starts with knowledge of the product and research on the marketplace.

That’s the first job of your newly minted marketing team (even if it’s just you!).

Social Media Is Your Friend
When looking for sterling examples of just what is fashion marketing, look no further than social media.

Facebook. Instagram. Pinterest. Even Snapchat.

The fashion industry leads pretty much all industries when it comes to experimenting with social media.

After all, social media has become increasingly visual and fashion is nothing if not aan image-first industry. Studies have been shown that the first person has purchased an item of clothing after seeing it on Instagram.

If you hate social media, sorry – it’s critical you learn to love it or hire someone who does.

Find Great Influencers in Your Niche
Speaking of people who take to social media like proverbial fish to water, influencer marketing has become a huge part of what is fashion marketing in 2017.

What is it?

Put simply, influencer marketing is when a company or brand contracts with someone who has a huge, established social media presence in their target niche to promote a product.

It’s basically a celebrity endorsement for the 21st century.

Just how important is it? More than six in 10 fashion companies made the influencers part of their marketing strategy in 2016, with another 21 percent planning on incorporating it in 2017.

Do not Forget Your Ground Game
Social media is good to talk about because it’s accessible anywhere, but the soul of fashion marketing is still on the ground.

So go to trade shows, fashion shows, and make connections.

Showcase your collection. Do a trunk show. Co-sponsor an event.

The key is to have your digital marketing game set up so that you can face in the digital space with website, email, social media, and so forth.

The ground game is an opportunity for people to get a tactile experience, see the product, touch the product-and also an opportunity for you to have the product engage in an ongoing dialogue with the brand before they buy.

What Is Fashion Marketing? That’s up to You
With this much competition, the most important thing is to stand out. Take risks.

Some brands do their marketing through e-mail only. Some do massive stunts.

Others simply stand by their terrific product, tour the country doing shows, and rely on word of mouth.

How to Use Facebook Ads for Real Estate

How to Use Facebook Ads for Real Estate

Real estate agents have many advantages over Facebook advertising. Their targeting capabilities are much more precise than other social media platforms.

Facebook Ads can not only find your audience through behavioral and demographic targeting, but also low cost.

However, many agents are still not included in this trend. So, those who want to take risks will gain a competitive advantage over other realtors.

But, like all marketing plans, you must have a strategy. Here’s how you should use Facebook ads for real estate.

“Possibility to Move”
Supported by behavioral data, Facebook now has the category of “Possible Move” people.

This data comes from online and offline research. This is also generated through platform-related partners.

People who have visited a real estate site recently will appear in this category. Those who have posted about the first home purchase will be included as well.

From there, you can even segment your audience even further. You can narrow it down by age, household income, and geography.

Facebook strategically adds an account that matches the “Possible to Move” category. This means you are not wasting dollars on advertising for people who have not been interested in moving. How to Use Facebook Ads for Real Estate

Let’s say you’re in the West with a farm for sale and want to contact interested buyers. You can specifically target those who have searched for farms in the area.

Do not Just Use Facebook Ads for Real Estate Buyers
Direct your ads to mortgage brokers as well.

Why? How to Use Facebook Ads for Real Estate

Because targeting a mortgage broker means you increase your referral chances.

Facebook also allows you to narrow down the target with a job title. Simply enter the ‘mortgage broker’ into the ad search engine, and voila! You will reach new audiences.

You do not want to spend a lot of money on people who are not interested in buying or selling. But reaching a certain audience can really improve your reputation.

You may also consider advertising with those who have the following job titles: processor advisers, closer, and refinance.

Coordinate with Traditional Efforts
Since you are targeting a certain area, you should implement traditional strategies in these places as well.

Of course, many who go through the mail directly thrown into the trash. But, traditional marketing can be much more effective when combined with digital business.

There is no doubt that consumers need a lot of opinions before making a purchase. That means they need to create some kind of impressions with your company.

So, if you spend money on Facebook advertising, you also have to coordinate around your standard tactics. Send your postcards and other direct mail ads to tenants in the same area code.

It is ideal to start your Facebook business right before you submit your direct mail. Then keep those ads running for a while later to maximize your exposure.

Enjoy Christmas With the Children in La Plagne

Enjoy Christmas With the Children in La Plagne

Christmas decorations have started to appear in the shops, meaning that now’s the time to start preparations for the festive period (especially if you have little ones!). If you want to treat the family to a special Christmas and something a little different this year, then I highly recommend spending the holidays in the snowy La Plagne. Chalets serve as fan-tastic holiday havens, and there are many cosy and family-friendly ones to choose from. Additionally, the resort is always transformed into a winter wonderland. What could be better than a magical white Christmas?
I adore the holiday season in La Plagne, and families always seem to have an unforget-table celebration. Here is what you can expect over the Christmas period.

It is impossible not to get caught up in festive excitement, as everybody is on their holiday and the entire area looks like something out of a Christmas film! This creates an electric atmosphere that simply cannot be matched back at home.

Christmas decorations and lights are placed all over the resort, transforming the area and creating a festive vibe. There is also a gigantic Christmas tree in the centre, which will take your breath away.

Skiing in La Plagne is an absolute must, and you can even do this on Christmas Day. It is a great way to get some exercise before indulging the rest of the day! The ski lifts and schools operate as normal, but there’s a unique atmosphere in the air. Be sure to look out for skiing Santas!

Christmas Events

La Plagne has many cheerful Christmas events that the whole family can enjoy. Im-merse yourself in the festivities by checking out a fun play or show, or spend time trawl-ing the bustling Christmas markets. Here you can discover all kinds of great gifts or find something tasty to eat.

Santa Visits

No Christmas is complete without seeing jolly old Saint Nick, and he always stops by on his sleigh to visit the kids and bring plenty of festive cheer (and presents, of course!).

Fireworks and Street Parades

Another reason that the atmosphere is so spirited is because wonderful street parades take place around La Plagne. These colourful, lively and often musical parades really unite the village and bring people together. There are also brilliant firework displays that are set against the stunning backdrop of the Alps and the twinkling blanket of stars above.

Need another fantastic motive for coming for Christmas? You don’t have to cook or wash up! Simply book a table at one of the many terrific restaurants, which have special festive menus with traditional dishes and all the trimmings. If you want to enjoy Christmas dinner at a restaurant, be sure to book in advance.

It gets better: the cosy accommodation is perfect for a snug Christmas in La Plagne. Chalet catering is available as well, which is convenient if you want to take a break from cooking and have all of your food taken care of.

Whilst you may be able to find a few presents at the markets and around town, it is im-portant to be aware that the shops are quite limited, so it is best to bring your big presents with you.

4 Best Engraved Gift for Your Employees

4 Best Engraved Gift for Your Employees

You want to show employees that you value them. But, you also do not want to give them a gift that will soon end at the next holiday party or thrown into the back of the closet forever forgotten.

How can you give your employees a special gift and which they will surely use and really enjoy? You’ll never go wrong with an engraved gift.

Here are 4 engraved gifts that your employees will surely love.

4 Engraved Prizes Your Employers Will Want
# 1: Personalized Wall Calendars

You not only want to give your employees something that looks good but will only collect dust. Instead, give them something they can use.

The personalized wall calendar is a great combination of both personal and useful gifts (especially at the office)!

If you work in an office, knowing dates is usually a great idea-and that’s important for that.

Document your potential employee date, countdown days until the holidays, track your next upcoming vacation, or all of the above.

Giving your staff a wall calendar will be helpful around the office, not to mention constant reminders of how wise your boss (blink, blink).

# 2: Custom Clocks

It’s time to get serious about rewarding.

A privately carved private hour is the best choice for any employee.

Whether the person is on time every day, or several times comes late, anyone and everyone wants and needs to know the time, right?

Giving employees an engraved clock as a gift is a way to tell them that you value their hard work sincerely.

Jam is a lasting gift to begin with – because it will always benefit anyone at the receiving end – and adding adjustments to it makes your presence even more wise.

# 3: Engraved Desk Accessories 4 Best Engraved Gift for Your Employees

While we are themed useful work gifts, let’s talk about desk accessories.

Desk employees if one place they can contact their own at work. Why not make items more suitable for them with carved table accessories?

If you are unsure of what table accessories can be an engraved gift, and which ones are the most used, check out the list below for some great ideas your staff will surely love.

Pencils and / or Pens
Coaster set
Name card holder
Post it and / or scrap pads
# 4: Unique Handcrafted Goods For Individuals

One of the gifts mentioned above can easily create wonderful personalized gifts that can work for any office relationship.

However, if you know your employees well, you may be looking for a more personal and unique gift for each individual.

Find out what’s special for every employee, what their hobbies are like, and find the prizes that need to be carved to their liking!

For example, if an employee liked a known game or strategist, give him an ornate chess set.

Maybe he made an average burger on the grill. Why not go for an engraved gift? 4 Best Engraved Gift for Your Employees

What gifts have you received from your boss so far? Which is awesome, and what is a total failure? Tell me about your gift from the past boss in the comments!

7 Tricks to Sell Your Fast House

So you have decided to sell your home in Houston.

If you’ve done this before, you know that one problem outweighs almost anything else: Sell it quickly.

Maybe you’ve heard that the first 30 days in the market are so important. (Right.) Maybe you have a new job to earn, or you really need cash, or you’re in a hurry to get out of town.

Whatever. What you want to know is, what can you do now to get and keep things moving.

Fortunately, you can do many things.

See Through Buyer’s Eye
You want potential buyers to see your home, not as it is, but because they want to see it. That means giving them a neutral canvas. Decluttered. Depersonalized.

That means giving them a neutral canvas. Decluttered, depersonalized, deodorized, if necessary, and de-critterized, meaning pets are invisible and audible to the ear.

Get knowledge
Finally, your home will be checked. So, give some serious thought to the pre-inspection inspection, conducted by an inspector who meets and complies with industry standards.

By completing it up front, you’ll know what your potential buyers might find in the end (and perhaps arm yourself to deny what their inspectors find).

Most importantly, you will be in a position to decide – in advance – whether and how you want to handle whatever needs to be done.

The price is right
You will get many suggestions on this subject. The price is high, leaving room to negotiate. Low price and direct traffic. It’s like trying to guess the direction of the stock market.

The price is high, leaving room to negotiate. Low price and direct traffic. It’s like trying to guess the direction of the stock market.

Best advice: Price is enough. Do not start with what you want or need to do. Start with a

Start by looking at the market. Is that a buyer’s or a seller’s market?

See what competitors are selling. Consider the type of improvement you want (or need) to create.

Then the price is appropriate.

Invest Wisely
Most likely you have to spend some money for this. Be smart about it.

Some upgrades may be inevitable. Inspection will help you know which one. So is your effort to see your home through the eyes of the buyer.

And a good agent might have some clear opinions.

Whatever you do, do not upgrade too much. You may not see the return.

On the other hand, take the time and spend money to take care of the little things you can manage.

Clean the grout. Fix the dripping faucet. Paint dirty or dirty.

Fix damaged wall or pet visible. Replace the burning bulb.

Shopping Agent
This is another area where you will get lots of advice. And the prospect of keeping the commission for yourself is undoubtedly tempted.

A good, well-informed agent gets the commission by taking care of things you can not do, or do not know how, or do not want them organized.

They know the market, the competition, the school and the neighborhood.

They take the right amount and type of photos and know how to use them in an effective marketing campaign.

They handle negotiations and provide information advice on things like performances.

Remember That First Impressions Last
This is called “curb appeal” because that’s what potential buyers will see before they even see the inside of the house. And that will shape their expectations.

That does not mean you have to pay landscape architects. But that means mowing the grass, weeding and trimming hedges, maybe even planting a flower or two.

Stay Flexible
Not just about price, but also all: scheduling open houses and appointments, discussing the future, setting vacancies and dwelling dates.

Remember that this is a negotiation, not a zero-sum game. In the best of results, everyone gets some – hopefully most – of what they want.

And when you really need to sell quickly, be sure to check out my Houston fast home sale for a solution with the potential to save a lot of time, effort and aggravation.

5 Top Tips to Help You Become an Online Financial Writer

Investment and finance are complex topics. Most schools do not teach about stocks or compound interest. This lack of financial knowledge has affected all generations.

Most people are responsible for their own financial decisions. But many do not know where and how to start.

Did you know that the average worker has saved just $ 5,000 before retirement?

This knowledge gap is a major opportunity for a financial writer. As a writer, you can provide useful financial content.

Keep reading for 5 useful tips to become a successful financial writer.

1. Writing Relatable Content
Finance and investment are not the most interesting topics to read. As a financial writer, you must find a way to animate this topic.

When writing, make sure your content is reliable. Use real-life stories of real people. This allows readers to understand and connect with information.

To make your content more personal, consider:

Uncover the money challenges you’ve overcome
Talk about your own experience with pension investments
An interview with a source who is willing to share his personal experience.
The key is to not only have the words on the screen. The words you provide need to have an impact.

2. Avoid Financial Jargon
Finance has become a difficult topic. Do not make it any harder by using financial jargon in your content.

This not only makes the content boring, but it makes it more difficult to digest.

Keep it simple! Write your content in the simplest English.

3. Provide Resources
Writing about pension investments or creating a budget is one thing. Increase the usefulness of your content by providing resources to your readers.

Creating a blog about Triple Net? Make sure your content has links to the Triple Net Gateway. This site provides more in-depth information for readers to advance their knowledge.

Want to educate readers about home equity? Include resources that discuss about home equity and home equity loans.

4. Be Knowledge
To become a financial writer, you want to understand a variety of financial topics. But you do not need to be a certified financial planner.

Do not be intimidated by the idea that you are not a financial expert.

As a writer, you can approach a difficult topic from a layman’s perspective. This is a great asset for companies looking for easy-to-understand content.

5. Build your Portfolio
Once you get the experience, now is the time to build your portfolio. This will set you apart from other financial writers.

Your portfolio should include your best work.

Is your content referenced by a reputable financial institution? Has your work been used in other financial content?

The more impressive your portfolio is, the more likely you can tear up the position of high visibility writing.

A Successful Financial Writer Needs Quality Content
As a financial writer, you should drive traffic to the content you create. As a finance teacher, chances are you do not know much about marketing. This is where we can help!

Our experts at ArticleCity know how to drive more traffic to your content. We understand the topics you need to cover to get the results you want.

With our expertise, your content will get the readers it needs.

How To Easily Find Many Houses You Can Have

This is everyone’s nightmare-you find the dream home just to see the asking price and your stomach drop by.

Can you buy it? Is there a way to gather your resources and assets to succeed?

And what if you pick something small and dirty, in a bad city area because you think you can not afford to pay better, just to find out (after you signed the papers) you can?

Before you commit to signing on the dashed line, it’s a good idea to research how many homes you can afford and whether you can grow or if you have to reopen them.

Here are some simple ways to find out how much you are entitled to borrow money from property fees and basic tips on how to prepare your financial information to help you get started on the right foot. Plus we will make it easier with home loan calculator which will save the cost of math!

Find out what the lender will ask for

There are a few things to consider before you set out to net net for a loan solution.

1. Gross monthly income
How much did you earn a month, before your bills and expenses went out?

2. Debts and monthly fees
If you have a credit card, an existing loan or a continuous monthly fee, you should make a note before starting.

3. Credit score
Use online tools to find out your credit score. The quality of your score will affect how many banks are willing to lend you.

4. Advance payment
How much can you give in a lump sum and how much is needed?

Get all your financial information together before you approach a bank or loan company so you know where you are.

Even this information gathering practice will give you a rough idea of what you can afford, thus avoiding disappointment more easily.

You may also want to compile a list of questions to ask for your bank or realtor, such as property taxes and how much the closing cost of the property will cost.

Use a home loan calculator

This is the fastest and easiest way to find out how many homes you can afford.

Just use an easy tool to include all your monthly expenses and the expenses you expect to pay in a new home.

The home loan calculator will show you how much you can borrow, so you can not get away with more than you can handle or less than you can afford. Easy!

Consider future costs

Housing costs are not just about ticket prices, you know. Each property comes with an upcoming monthly fee:

– Utilities
– Home care
– Tax
– Insurance

You also have moving costs and home interior costs to think about, so do not forget to add them to your list!

If you have all your finances together and you have used a home loan calculator to see how much you can borrow, you are ready to plunge into the world of housing market!

How to Safely Buy Marijuana Online

Ever wish you had access to a wider choice of weed than you can get at the local dispensary? Or, do you get tired of having to travel to pick up your bud?

Buying marijuana online could be the solution to all your problems.

While it might sound a little sketchy, it’s completely possible to buy weed safely and legally online – you just need to know what you’re doing.

If you’re a newbie to shopping for your weed online, you’re in the right place.

We’ve put together this simple guide to ordering marijuana through the mail. Just keep reading for everything you need to know!

Only Buy from Certified Dispensaries
In Canada, it’s completely legal for medical marijuana patients to buy weed from certified online dispensaries, like Dope Mail.

So, if you’re already a medical marijuana patient, it’s as simple as finding a legitimate site to buy from. If you’re not a medical patient, you’ll need to wait until mid-2018, when a bill to legalize weed will likely be passed.

Unfortunately, a large black market still exists and not every site you see is the real thing. Avoid links on forums and social media, and steer clear of sites that look unprofessional or contain little information.

Buying from one of these sites is not just illegal. You also risk purchasing a dangerous substance that is not the same as what is described on the web page.

Always do your research before purchasing from a site. It’s far better to be safe than sorry.

Check Reviews Before Purchasing
There are plenty of online dispensaries to choose from, and they’re not all equal.

Some sites have more choices, more detailed information, faster shipping costs, and better customer service than others.

Before you make your purchase, be sure to check plenty of reviews from other buyers. Do not look only at reviews on the site itself, but check comments from outside sources, too.

If you’re unsure about a site, start by making a small order to see how things go.

Choose the Right Strain for Your Needs
Choosing the right strain is a part of safe marijuana use.

While certain strains may symptoms such as physical pain, anxiety, and insomnia, others could make them worse.

If you’re used to a particular strain and know that it works well for you, it’s wise to stick to something similar.

If you’re still experimenting, you’ll want to consider whether you need an Indica or a Sativa. You can also look at options like edibles, concentrates, and oils, and consider the time of day you’ll be using the drug.

Since there is a physical dispensary, it is important to choose a site that is strains.

Are You Ready to Buy Marijuana Online?
Buying marijuana online is a convenient alternative to visiting a wider range of strains.

To stay safe, choose a reputable online dispensary, avoid buying from forums, check reviews before purchasing, and choose the right strain for your needs.

7 Signs It Time to Outsource Medical Billing Services

Staff feel overwhelmed? Spend too much time to file a rejected claim? Do not feel you are being paid properly for the medical services you provide?

Maybe it’s time you consider whether medical billing service makes sense for your facility.

Medical billing services solve many common administrative problems in health facilities – often while reducing costs and raising morale.

Let’s explore the 7 signs you need to spend on your medical billing.

High Turn Over Staff
If you have a high turnover among your administrative staff, medical bills can quickly switch from an annoying liability to a horror movie.

When someone leaves, you are forced to:

Share work among team members who already have full workload
Allow people who have other talents, but little to know about billing and coding, to handle your highly sensitive part of the practice
Spend a lot of time training a new person who might leave you before the training really pays for themselves.
High employee churns lead to reduced revenue, more mistakes and can lead to poor patient care.

In addition, the responsibility for medical billing and struggle can actually improve your ability. For those who already feel full load, doing something as complicated as billing can easily become the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

But medical billing services improve this by bringing reliability and consistency into the process, reducing this unnecessary weight to your staff.

Need to Increase Revenue
With many payers, you may be paid more for sick patients. You know that this is not meant to make the patient sick, but to know the fact that if your patient has more morbidity, the doctor should spend more time with the patient.

Not having a proper diagnosis code on a claim can reduce your payment rate. Having an incorrect code representing the severity of a patient’s condition affects your salary.

With procedural code, the unintentional billing code for MRI without contrast, when contrasting with and without contrast is done, can cause your clinic to be paid less than it should.

Medical service providers already feel the weight of payments being deducted from sources such as Medicare and Medicaid. Insurance companies are negotiating tariffs to beans. They focus on creating better quality based payment systems – many relying on the right coding to prove quality.

Members of the medical billing service staff are trained to use the coding correctly and correctly convey the information to maximize your revenue.

Tired of Pending Payouts
Are you bored with pending payments and extra work because the claim was denied?

According to McKesson, rejected claims can cost an additional $ 25 to be fixed and sent back.

If this happens with any frequency, you must not only wait for payment; You lose money.

Some common claims for refusal reasons include:

Incomplete information
Duplicate claims … usually due to poor recording or lack of communication
Billing for things not covered by the insurance company
Missing from filing date
Incomplete code
Medical billing service specialized in medical billing. Some medical practices have a 30% rejection rate while a high-ranking billing service in a medical billing service review may have a refusal rate as low as 2%.

That’s what you want. Get paid quickly Get what you owe Without the hassle of rejection.

Staff Overstretched
Do you distribute billing duties among staff members – and even clinical staff – who has other jobs? Do your administrative staff work through the weekend to pursue claims?

If so, you are not alone. Many practice to expand their existing staff rather than outsourcing because they think they are not able to do so. But, as you can see, outsourcing adds efficiency and increases in salary rates that make recruitment plausible. Regardless of the size of your practice, medical billing services work.

Exceptional staff members not only do not have a healthy life balance; they are also more likely to make good mistakes in billing and other jobs.

Patient Care Improvement Required
Does the receptionist not recognize the incoming patient because he is so focused on filling the claim? Are nurses slow to get to the exam room because they are tied up billing? Can the office manager not manage the staff properly


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The department of Aeronautical Engineering was started in the academic year 2011-12 with an authorized intake of 60 students per annum. At present there are about 240 students, not only from all over India...

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Industry Interaction

Industry visit to Indian Air Force airfield

A visit is organized for students of 3rd semester on 29th September, 2018 on the occasion of Parakram Parv to Indian Air Force airfield in Yelahanka, Bengaluru

Students at Indian Air Force airfield in “Parakram Parv 2018” Exhibition

The students work on internships and projects at reputed organizations, R&D laboratories and educational institutions. Our principal organizations for interaction are:

Industry visit to Mahindra Aerospace

Students of 8th semester witnessed various manufacturing processes and heat treatment process involved in production of aircraft structural components at Mahindra aerospace on 27 th January, 2018.

Students of 6th semester witnessed various divisions and facilities such as propulsion, C-CAAD, structural, acoustics etc. at National Aerospace laboratory on 16 th January 2018.

Interaction with Industry

Dynamic measurement and Analysis

The Aeronautical Engineering Department conducted a Technical demonstration, in collaboration with CMTI-Bangalore, on “Dynamic Measurement and Analysis” on 24-11-16

The Department  demonstrates “Dynamic measurement and Analysis” in association with ADVANCED MACHINE TOOL TESTING FACILITY which is a joint project of the Indian Machine Tool Industry, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India and CMTI. The demonstration pertains to the evaluation of  the dynamic performance of Structures.

Faculty and Students keenly observing the Dynamic analysis of Plate Structures

Dr P J Bhat – Group Director, ISAC/ISRO

The Department of Aeronautical engineering organized a seminar (in Oct 2016) on SPACE TECHNOLOGY IN ADVANCE STAGE. The talk was given by Dr P.J.Bhat-Group Director, Sr. Scientist –ISAC/ISRO. The speaker addressed the Aeronautical Engineering students on SPACE ORBITS AND TRAJECTORY. It gave a brief insight into current trends in Aerospace Technologies.

Shri P R Bhat Addressing the Students

Maruthsakha Aerospace and Aviation Services Private Limited

The department has had discussions with Maruthsakha Aerospace and Aviation Services Private Limited. The discussions pertain to Internships to Final Year Students of Aeronautical Engineering Department and an Incubation Centre at our Department for encouraging young students.

It was also decided to have a MOU with them after thorough discussions with Representatives of the company and Principal, Director and Dean of the College.

National Aerospace Laboratories: The students visited the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru, in March 2015. This is the first visit by NMIT students to NAL. The students attended technical presentations on the work and R&D activities under taken at NAL. The students had exposure to the Wind Tunnel facilities of the Aerodynamics Division and the laboratories of the Propulsion Division. The visit enabled the students to select problems for their final semester projects.

Students of semester 6 visited Aero India 2015 at Yelahanka Air Force Station in February 2015.

ASTE Visit: Students witnessed the static display of Fighter, Bomber, Trainer, Transport aircraft and helicopters at the Aircraft & Systems Testing Establishment, IAF, in October 2013.

HAL Museum: Students visited the HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Museum in April 2013. They learnt the basics of aeronautics and related advances in the aircraft industry.

Air Force Technical College: The students visited the Air Force Technical College, Jalahalli, to learn about the training imparted to engineers and pilots of IAF (Indian Air Force) This training keeps the IAF personnel abreast of the latest development in aeronautics.

Aero India 2013 and 2015: Students visited the Aero India 2013 and once again in 2015. Aero India was at the Yelahanka Air Force Station. Students witnessed demonstrations by pilots.

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Vitae by Zaha Hadid, Best Bathroom Collection at MosBuild Moscow 2018

Category: News
Date: 11 abr 2018

The iconic collection, Vitae, designed by Zaha Hadid from Noken Porcelanosa Bathrooms, has already won yet another award, which sits in its Design Award 'cabinet'.

Its cutting-edge essence inspired by the movement of water has won the jury over at Mosbuild Moscow 2018. This has made the Anglo-Iraqi architect's bathroom series the Best Bathroom Collection from the event. Vitae bathroom equipment, which has recently incorporated new pieces like the new 65cm basin to its reference catalogue. She already has other outstanding awards on her list of triumphs, such as: Best Design at the i-Novo Awards 2016 or Best Design at the A + Architizer Awards 2017, among others.

The WorldBuild Awards gets underway: first edition

It is the first time that Worldbuild Moscow has held the design awards, which are named as the WorldBuild Awards. Its objective is recognising the best innovations in the building field, architecture and design worldwide, as well as attracting attention from the professional public in relation to the products and solutions that, give a greater boost to this sector.

Ten categories have been created for these awards, from sanitaryware and bathroom equipment, to floor tiles, wall tiles or building solutions, without forgetting about the best bathroom collections, in which Vitae won the most important award, thanks to the professional and public vote.

Versatility and quality in bathroom design by Noken at MosBuild

As well as Vitae by Zaha Hadid, which is presented at MosBuild 2018 as the star from Noken Porcelanosa Bathroom designs; the PORCELANOSA Grupo bathroom equipment firm has also showcased other outstanding and benchmark collections at this fair.

An example of this is the Pure Line Wood collection, with the bathroom furniture in a metal structure and oak wood, as well as a basin and a mirror; the Arquitect bathtub with a soft finish and a soft delicate touch; or the new radiator equipment, along with the new black finishes for taps, a real trend in bathrooms in 2018.

That innovative sample of new products and trends has also proven Noken Porcelanosa Bathrooms worthy of the Best Stand Award at Mosbuild 2018.

MosBuild, one of the first events in the annual design calendar, which was held from April 3 to 6, has been a key opportunity for Noken Porcelanosa Bathrooms to showcase its latest innovations. Russia has become a very important market for the PORCELANOSA Grupo, since these days, there is a growing demand in the country for the products and materials from the Tile of Spain. MosBuild is also a relevant interprofessional event, with around 1200 companies present, along with some 80.000 square metres of exhibition space spread out, and up to 25 business events.


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The Grand

Category: Projects, Hotels
Date: 16 ene 2016

Location: Lyth St. Annes. Lancashire, UK.

The project:

French elegance gets toaccommodate in the UK, to be precise, at The Grand Hotel. A building rich in Victorian-architecture, where the rooms delicately combine contemporary design with the original classicist elements of the building.

The Grand is one of the most luxurious styled hotels in the UK, and it is situated in an idyllic location surrounded by purplish and reddish fields in the North West part of the country.

Going into the impressive building is like penetrating an extravagant-styled, and at the same time, refined atmosphere. A blend with an exceptional result which is portrayed in the bathroom design, which has been fitted with the latest Noken solutions, aimed at achieving excellence for the guests’ stay.

The team of interior designers in charge of the project have made a careful choice regarding the elements in order to provide the most luxurious hotel rooms with comfort: The Gran Turret and the Grand Sea View.

In our tour, first of all, we enter in the Grand Sea View roomsand we can appreciate the solemnity of a classical-styled design, and at the same time, very modern. Aiming at providing every detail with comfort, the rooms have been fitted with the NK Logic wall hung basins and the Cuadro bathroom taps, both in basins and showers.

Now it is time to get into the most luxurious rooms in the hotel, in other words, the Grand Turret rooms. Located in an exceptional area inside this historical building, in its towers, there are rooms that are perfect for a romantic getaway or extended break. They have wide bathrooms with wall hung pieces of furniture, which leads to greater spaciousness.

The basin from the Hotels series offers a great space for a use that is filled with ease, and it is perfectly complemented with the refined style and the lightness of the NK Concept bathroom taps. Furthermore, these taps are a clear example of sustainability thanks to their cold opening system, which reduces energy consumption, something that turns out to be ideal for hotel projects.

On the other hand, and with regard to the most comfortable area of shower and bathroom, it is worth highlighting the Neptune Slim Rondo shower head and the Project handshower, together with the Minimal Oval freestanding bathtub and the NK One sanitarywares.

For greater warmth, one can find the Contracts C heated towel rail, which will make the guests’ stay a more welcoming experience.


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