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House for rent, 5 rooms + kitchen (5+1)
Prague - Přední Kopanina
K Tuchoměřicům,
Prague 6 - Přední Kopanina
280 m2,
garden 232 m2
45 000 Kč /a month
+ energy
Are you looking for housing for your family in Prague but you also need peace and quiet as well as sufficient privacy? Then keep reading because I am currently offering a house for rent with a 5+1 layout (5 rooms + a kitchen) and with a garden occupying a total area of 232 m2, which might appeal to you. The family house with a useable floor area of 280 m2 is situated amidst family houses in a quiet neighbourhood, on the K Tuchoměřicům street in the Prague's municipal district of Přední Kopanina.
The house has a basement and two above-ground floors. In the basement, there is a spacious corridor, a technical room (2 boilers, a dryer, and a washing machine), a closet, a bathroom with a shower stall and a toilet as well as two smaller rooms, which can be used, for example, to store things that are needed less frequently. The dominant feature of the basement is a large area (36 m2) where you can set up a workout area, a gym or a playroom for children. On the ground floor, you can find an entrance corridor, which includes a built-in wardrobe. There is also a spacious living room with an entrance to a terrace, a kitchen, a dining area and a bathroom with a shower stall and a toilet. The kitchen unit is equipped with a glass-ceramic cooktop, an electric oven, an extractor hood, a dishwasher and a refrigerator with a freezer. On the 1st floor, there are 4 bedrooms, a technical room (a boiler), a bathroom with a bathtub and a toilet, and two walk-in wardrobes. You will certainly enjoy the underfloor heating in the bathroom, which can be controlled manually. Floors are covered with a combination of carpets, floor tiles and floating flooring. The house is offered unfurnished.
The house also includes a garage with an area of 27 m2 where you can comfortably park two cars. And if you do not wish to put your car in the garage, you can also leave it in the very spacious area in front of the garage. The house has two terraces, one in the front part and another one in the rear part where there is also an outdoor seating area with a barbecue grill and a smoking chamber. The house is heated by electric heaters; water is heated by boilers.
The municipal district of Přední Kopanina is situated in the north-west periphery of the capital city, not far from the international airport in Prague-Ruzyně, approximately 10 km from downtown Prague. The location offers sufficient tranquillity and privacy. You can also find a soccer field here, right next to the highly popular establishment called U Drahušky where there is a restaurant and where events for locals are held. You can also eat tasty meals in the Da Ezio pizzeria.
Mere 3 minutes away by car, there is the municipal district of Nebušice where you can find schools, kindergartens as well as the International School of Prague. It takes 5 minutes by car to get to the POP Airport outlet and entertainment centre where, besides shopping, you can have a lot of fun because it includes Majaland and Dinosarium. And if you still want more, you can drive for 10 minutes to get to the Šestka Shopping Mall, which offers not only shops and play facilities for children but also a great view of airplanes. A short distance from the house, there is a bus stop from which you can get to the metro line A station "Bořislavka" in 15 minutes.
Lovers of nature will also find something to enjoy – mere 3 minutes from here, there is one of the largest Prague's parks, the nature reserve Divoká Šárka. Besides rocks, ravines and extensive forests, the park also includes an outdoor swimming pool, children's playgrounds and a picnic site with a public fire pit. Simply a paradise in the capital city, just a short distance from your new home.
The house is available for move-in immediately. So call me or write me to make an appointment for a viewing.
Operating costs
The monthly utility costs for the house are around CZK 3,500 + energy
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Do you find this offer interesting? Do not hesitate to contact me, I will be happy to discuss with you anything you would like to know.


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Riyadh - SPA
Saudi Minister of Petroleum & Minerals described the drop of oil prices as a passing problem. He cited several reasons that led to this problem including substantial slowdown of world economy growth and increased oil supply from outside OPEC combined with a significant decline of demand. He confirmed that the Saudi economy is robust and can withstand temporary price fluctuations.
Last Modified Date: 18/12/2014 - 11:28 AM Saudi Arabia Time

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Verizon jumped on the early device upgrade program bandwagon Thursday, as they have unveiled their own smartphone upgrade program, dubbed "Edge." The program offers subscribers the ability to upgrade to a new handset after six months.
Verizon Edge is pitched as a "flexible equipment payment plan," allowing customers to spread the retail price of a new phone over a 24-month period. If users pay 50 percent of the retail cost of their smartphone, they can upgrade to a new phone in as soon as six months.
The new program is available for any smartphone offered by Verizon, and customers can choose the phone they want along with a month-to-month service plan.
The full retail price of the handset will be divided over a 24-month period, with the customer paying the first month of that plan at the time of purchase.
If a customer upgrades to a new phone after six months, the 24-month payment period starts over. The plan, which launches for "Share Everything" customers on August 25th, does not include a service contract, finance charges, or upgrade fees.
Verizon's announcement comes after announcements about similar plans that would be offered by T-Mobile, (Jump), and AT&T, (Next).
This announcement leaves Sprint as the only carrier among the big four not to have announced an early device upgrade program.


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By Jun Ledesma
DENGUE and PRRD's mosquito net
LETHARGY is a syndrome in the bureaucracy. In government, it is quite acute especially with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and the Department of Health. The COMELEC is busy before during and after elections, all for about 60 days, which happens once every three years but the poll body is always hounded with problems. No one knows what exactly it does for the rest of 1,020 days.
DOH is another story. It is among the top five Departments that receive the biggest chunk of the budget but as I write this piece DOH is hounded by corruption issues and wastage of medicines worth billions of pesos that are on their way to the graveyard because these have expired.
Yesterday, August 6, DOH declared dengue epidemic and goads the public to adopt the 4-o'clock habit to eliminate breeding places of virus-carrying mosquitoes. This year is bound to register the highest number of dengue cases and deaths. This in addition to victims of Dengvaxia for our health authorities allowed our children to be the guinea pigs of anti-vaccine trials gone wrong.
Just like the electoral exercises which happen once every three years, dengue fever emerges every year in the Philippines from July, peaks in August to September and then subsides towards November. The Health authorities however never ever bothered to come up with some measures to contain the infection until it goes out of hand. And here we are facing an epidemic and the death toll is rising.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for dengue fever and we are left with prevention measures and then with folkloric medicines which fortunately appear to arrest the decline of a number of platelets in the blood and increase this very quickly the moment the patient takes it. I am referring to tawa-tawa decoction. A scientific experiment done by undergraduate students from the University of Santo Tomas on this herbal medicine showed that platelet count increased by nearly 50% while bleeding, if any, was reduced dramatically once the patient takes it. Of course, the other advice for dengue patient is to drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration.
I am sure that DOH heard of "tawa-tawa" herbal medicine but they would rather go for Dengvaxia than promote the native decoction. There is no money in tawa-tawa.
Prevention moreover is the best recourse to lessen the impact and spread of the dengue virus. The lesson can be absorbed from the experience of other health authorities. The mosquito-borne viral infection affects countries near the equatorial zone. The southern region of China is among the places afflicted by dengue virus before. Unlike what is happening in the Philippines health authorities of the Peoples Republic of China considered dengue a top priority health problem. Given the fact that there is no known cure, health administrators concentrated on monitoring, prevention, and control.
With the regular occurrence of dengue at a certain time of the year and the detection of the usual symptoms that the illness manifest, health authorities in southern China move to prevent the spread of the virus carried by the vector mosquitos.
In the Philippine settings this simply means that given the experience, as in the start of rainy season, DOH should already direct all the regional health authorities to partner with the local government units, especially the barangay officials, to destroy or eliminate all breeding places of mosquitos like used tires, cans, plants axils which holds water. These should prevent mosquito eggs or larvae from developing into adults. Now that dengue fever has become epidemic, spraying of pesticides has to be used to control the outbreak. During the Marcos era, health personnel conduct fogging measures to kill mosquito vectors. This means repeating the application twice or thrice because the pupae and larval stages of the vectors might not be affected by the insecticide and will develop into an adult.
Now for those who think your surroundings are potential breeding places of dengue virus-carrying mosquitos it might be wise to wear long-sleeve shirts, long pants, spray insect repellants in your clothes.
I have a secret to share why Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte cannot sleep soundly unless he is under a mosquito net. He used to reside in a place near a creek where there were spots with stagnant water that are veritable breeding places of mosquitos. Later he transferred to a low-cost subdivision, in a modest home which was visited by Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Among the things Abe saw was that ever-present mosquito net. So take a cue from President Duterte. Use a mosquito net and sleep your worries of dengue away.
About the Columnist
Mr. Jun Ledesma is a community journalist who writes from Davao City and comments from the perspective of a Mindanaoan.


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Assistant Professor Jonathan Bean Named 2021 CUES Distinguished Fellow for 'Climate Heroes' Curriculum
Jonathan Bean, assistant professor of architecture, sustainable built environments and marketing in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona, has been named one of four 2021 CUES Distinguished Fellows by UArizona's Center for University Education Scholarship.
Bean's project, Climate Heroes: Transforming the Built Environment, addresses the fundamental challenge of our time: climate change.
"In my teaching, I've observed that students are looking for a toolkit to address climate change, which is a problem they care deeply about," says Bean. "Like many of our society's grand challenges, however, one of the most important lessons students can learn is that we don't yet have all the answers, so there's enormous opportunity if students start to see themselves as lifelong learners. That's hugely empowering to students, and it's also the only way we're going to realize the potential to decarbonize the built environment. We can have a climate-positive world, but to get there, we're going to need every one of our current and future architects and other built environment professionals pulling together."
Under the funded fellowship, Bean will develop curriculum that is drawn from architecture, engineering, building science and social science to prepare students to lead the climate change transition. Pedagogy will be informed by Legitimation Code Theory, which "offers a robust set of tools to understand knowledge and information flow within and between academic disciplines and professional fields," says Bean.
The three-year fellowship is designed to build students' sense of agency to address climate change while increasing intrinsic motivation for self-driven learning, equip students with tools to build domain-specific specialized knowledge and move that knowledge between built environment disciplines, and deepen UArizona's leadership in foundational and applied climate change education for the built environment.
Climate Heroes: Transforming the Built Environment will ramp up over three years:
Year 1. Pilot an expert-mentor model in an existing architecture building technology course, impacting 75 architecture students.
Year 2. Broaden impact to 100 by enrolling Sustainable Built Environments, Architectural Engineering and Architecture students in the newly developed Building Climate Heroes course.
Year 3. Integrate with UArizona's emerging general education curriculum with the potential to impact students across the university to become aware of the opportunity posed by our built environment and then entrust the course to a dedicated instructor.
Bean, who joined CAPLA in 2017, is a PHIUS Certified Passive House Consultant and serves on the board of the Passive House Alliance U.S. He also serves as scholarship chair for the Society of Building Science Educators. His architecture student teams have participated in the last four U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenges, where they have developed the innovative SunBlock distributed district energy system concept. A faculty advisor for the Master of Science in Architecture Market Transformation Concentration, Bean's research transits the fields of building technology and energy use, consumer research, human-computer interaction, architecture and design with a focus on taste and consumption. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.


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Blazin Moto Transforming Rc Firetruck Robot
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The Blazin' Moto is an all-terrain 4x4 firetruck in a brawny red plastic frame which reveals itself to be a towering robot. Send the RC truck roaring across the ground in all directions. Then, use the voice-activation feature in the remote control to speak various commands like "TRANSFORM!"- watch the truck become a towering robot in one move. Command the robot to "DANCE!" and it busts a move for you!
• All-terrain 4x4
• Bright LED lights
• Sturdy frame
• Voice-activated and RC controlled
• 2.4 GHz remote
• Functions and drives in both robotic and vehicular state
Age: 8+
Includes Transforming Robot/Firetruck, Remote Control, Lithium Ion Battery, Battery Charger, User Manual


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Experts reveal the staggering sum Hunter Biden is likely paying his lawyers
Experts just revealed to Breitbart News that Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is likely paying over $100,000 per month in legal expenses.
This report from Breitbart comes as Hunter Biden is facing multiple investigations.
Two of these investigations are being led by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Their focus is on Biden's taxes and international business dealings.
It is unclear where these investigations currently stand. Reports emerged in October indicating that prosecutors believe they have enough information to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes and with crimes related to false statements that he made regarding a gun purchase.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is also facing an investigation that is being led by congressional Republicans.
This investigation is looking at such crimes as wire fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tax evasion, and money laundering. It is also looking to determine President Biden's involvement, if any, in his son's affairs.
This congressional investigation is expected to ramp up in the new year when Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Over $100,000 per month
To defend against all of this, Hunter Biden has assembled what has been described as an "all-star" legal team.
This team is headed by Kevin Morris, a high-profile entertainment lawyer who has represented such celebrities as Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Rock, and Matthew McConaughey.
The team also includes Chris Clark and Joshua A. Levy, and, most recently, reports have revealed that Morris added Abbe Lowell to the team. Lowell is known for representing high-profile individuals engaged in political scandals, including Bill Clinton. Accordingly, it is probably no coincidence that Lowell's hiring comes just before the Republicans are about to regain control of the House.
As would be expected, such an "all-star" legal team doesn't come cheap. Breitbart News reports:
According to attorneys with knowledge of industry compensation standards, Hunter could be paying more than $100,000 per month ($1.2 million per year) for his legal defense team. Lawyers at such a level would cost $1,000 per hour, a D.C. attorney who asked for anonymity for fear of retribution and reprisal told Breitbart News. Prepping for a single hearing could range from 6 to 40 hours, another attorney said.
The key question
Upwards of $100,000 is a staggering amount of money to pay for someone who has told a judge that he doesn't have enough money to pay child support for the daughter that he had with Lunden Roberts - a financial position that appears to have been confirmed by Kathleen Buhle, the ex-wife of Hunter Biden.
This begs the question - from where is the money coming?
At this point, the answer to this question remains unknown.


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Technische Universität Berlin offers an open position:
Please send your application with the reference number and the usual documents only by email (in a PDF file, max. 5 MB) to firstname.lastname@example.com.
By submitting your application via email you consent to having your data electronically processed and saved. Please note that we do not provide a guaranty for the protection of your personal data when submitted as unprotected file. Please find our data protection notice acc. DSGVO (General Data Protection Regulation) at the TU staff department homepage: https://www.abt2-t.tu-berlin.de/menue/themen_a_z/datenschutzerklaerung.
To ensure equal opportunities between women and men, applications by women with the required qualifications are explicitly desired. Qualified individuals with disabilities will be favored. The TU Berlin values the diversity of its members and is committed to the goals of equal opportunities.
Fakultät VI, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, FG Reservoir Engineering, Sekr. BH 3-1,
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin


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Sold for £24,750
(including buyers premium)
Registration No: R404 JTM
Chassis No: SCCGA1114WHC33576
MOT: May 2023
Introduced at the 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Lotus Elise was a driver's car par excellence. A paragon of lightness, agility and responsiveness, the newcomer utilised a bonded extruded aluminium chassis clad with fibreglass body panels. Mid-mounted and allied to five-speed manual transmission, its 1.8 litre K-Series engine produced a modest 118bhp and 122lbft of torque. However, with a kerb weight of just 725kg the two-seater was capable of 0-60mph in 5.8 seconds and over 120mph. Able to glide over a broken British B-road in typical Lotus fashion, the Elise did without power steering, ABS or traction control and was all the better for it. Early models featured Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) brake discs which not only minimised unsprung weight but also provided great feel. Enthusiasts are already seeking out Series 1 cars (especially MMC equipped examples) as representing the purest incarnation of the Elise; a trend which seems bound to continue.
Having placed his order through the London Lotus Centre, the first owner of 'R404 JTM' was such a marque enthusiast that he made several trips to Hethel to observe it being built (the associated photographs remain on file). Passionate about the Elise, he not only had it serviced on an annual (and sometimes bi-annual) basis initially but also subtly enhanced the two-seater's driving dynamics and interior with S2 suspension components and S2-style upholstery. Another Lotus aficionado whose uncle had worked for the Norfolk firm before becoming specialising in the marque, the vendor was drawn to 'R404 JTM' by its condition, originality and impressive history file. Only the car's second owner, he rates the engine, gearbox, electrical equipment, bodywork, paintwork and interior trim as all being 'very good overall'. The Dark Blue soft-top roof is in good order as is the 'shower cap' and underside. Starting readily and running well during our recent photography session, this low mileage Elise S1 has much to recommend it and would certainly grace a marque collection.
For more information, please contact:
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Wright SC, Kozielewicz P, Kowalski-Jahn M, Petersen J, Bowin CF, Slodkowicz G, Marti-Solano M, Rodríguez D, Hot B, Okashah N, Strakova K, Valnohova J, Babu MM, Lambert NA, Carlsson J, Schulte G
Nat Commun 10 (1) 667 [2019-02-08; online 2019-02-08]
Class F receptors are considered valuable therapeutic targets due to their role in human disease, but structural changes accompanying receptor activation remain unexplored. Employing population and cancer genomics data, structural analyses, molecular dynamics simulations, resonance energy transfer-based approaches and mutagenesis, we identify a conserved basic amino acid in TM6 in Class F receptors that acts as a molecular switch to mediate receptor activation. Across all tested Class F receptors (FZD4,5,6,7, SMO), mutation of the molecular switch confers an increased potency of agonists by stabilizing an active conformation as assessed by engineered mini G proteins as conformational sensors. Disruption of the switch abrogates the functional interaction between FZDs and the phosphoprotein Dishevelled, supporting conformational selection as a prerequisite for functional selectivity. Our studies reveal the molecular basis of a common activation mechanism conserved in all Class F receptors, which facilitates assay development and future discovery of Class F receptor-targeting drugs.
PubMed 30737406
DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-08630-2
Crossref 10.1038/s41467-019-08630-2
pii: 10.1038/s41467-019-08630-2
pmc: PMC6368630


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I find that I am talking a lot about asset allocations these days – the reason is simple. Asset allocation is how investors can manage risk, reduce the volatility in their portfolios, and above all else, is what drives the majority of the returns in a portfolio. Consider the following statement from the folks over at Merriman Berkman Next (Sound Investing Podcast):
Dimensional Fund Advisors studied the returns of 44 institutional pension funds with about $450 billion in assets over various time periods averaging nine years. The study concluded that more than 96 percent of the variation in returns could be attributed to the kinds of assets in the portfolios. Most of the remaining 4 percent was attributable to stock picking and the timing of purchases and sales.
Read that again if it didn't sink in. 96% of the variation in returns could be attributed to the kinks of assets in your portfolio. In other words, it is not about the individual stocks or funds you hold in your portfolio. It is primarily about the structure of that portfolio and the combination of assets you hold. Like last weeks article which looked at asset allocation of pension funds I had a look at some other big-time money managers for how they structured their asset allocations. This lead me to do some research on what the asset allocations of one of the most successful investment funds of our time – The Yale Endowment Fund. The Yale fund has boasted an annualized return of 17.2% during the last 10 years (source)! With returns like that I think it is wise to see how they did it.
It came down to their asset allocation. The asset allocation used by the fund was simple, yet very effective. Here is how it broke down:
To fully describe what each of these asset classes entail within the fund, I would need about 10 pages and I would also bore you to death. However, I do truly believe that if you are managing your own portfolio you need to read the annual report from the fund to read about each of these classes. I found that I learned a lot in doing so.


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Spot and term charter rates for LNG carriers have launched sharply upwards earlier in the year than might normally be expected as nerves are set jangling over the impact on supply from the threat of industrial action in Australia.
Owners and brokers said there are few firm fixtures being concluded to illustrate the market sentiment.
Shipbroker Braemar said that for those with prompt LNG carrier tonnage there is "little interest" in fixing at present, pointing to the relatively long tonnage lists for vessels that are immediately open with owners and operators preferring to hold for anticipated rate rises.


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The company Nord Stream 2 has affirmed this Saturday that the gas leaks detected in the Russian submarine pipeline have stopped. A spokesman for the company has reported, according to the AFP agency, that the pressure of the gas and the water have reached a point of balance that prevents the material from continuing to flow from the pipeline to the sea as it has until now.
The Nord Stream explosions may be the beginning of a new hybrid war
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This filtration suspension only affects the second of the two Russian Nord Stream pipelines. The Danish and Swedish governments this week detected several leaks in the two pipes, which connect Russia and Germany energetically, a highly unlikely event that has led the powers involved, as well as the United States and Russia, to speak of "sabotage".
Since the leaks were detected, the gas has been emanating towards the surface of the water uninterruptedly and has formed over the sea, when it comes into contact with the atmosphere, a pool of bubbles more than a kilometer in diameter. Natural gas is essentially composed of methane, which has raised the concern of international organizations about the possible climate impact that leaks may have.
Before the communication of the Nord Stream 2 spokesman, Denmark has released a statement in which he said that the Russian pipeline had already expelled all the gas that it housed inside. The Danish authorities have reported that, apparently, the gas has stopped emanating from the second tube after the material it contained has been exhausted. "The Nord Stream consortium has informed the Danish Directorate General for Energy that it seems that a stable pressure has been reached in the Nord Stream 2 pipes. This indicates that the gas leak has come to an end", it has communicated. in its account on the social network Twitter this Danish body.
Interpretations therefore differ on whether the gas inside the conduit has completely escaped to the outside of the pipe or instead the pressure of the water has exceeded that of the remaining gas.
The Danish authorities reported four days ago that more than half of the gas had already left the two tubes and that the flow could stop this Sunday, which would allow underwater exploration to begin. In their previous forecast yesterday, they pointed out that the Nord Stream 2 could be empty of gas today and that the other conduit would do so tomorrow.
Nord Stream is a set of two gas pipelines that directly connect the Russian cities of Vyborg and Ust-Luga with Germany. With a length of 1,224 kilometers, together they have a capacity to transport 110,000 million cubic meters of gas per year (the entire EU consumes around 397,000 million cubic meters of gas).
The electricity and gas sectors of Denmark and Sweden have raised the alarm level on their facilities due to leaks and the same has been done by neighboring Norway, despite the fact that it does not have a coast in the Baltic, including a military presence. Neither of the two gas pipelines was in service when the accidents occurred.
The first interrupted supplies weeks ago, citing Moscow technical problems, while the second never came into operation, since Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz blocked it as a result of Moscow's recognition of the self-proclaimed separatist republics of Donbas, in February, shortly before of the start of the war.
Both the affected countries and the rest of the European Union (EU), the United States and Russia speak of sabotage, although they differ as to the possible perpetrator. Moscow has accused the Anglo-Saxons of being behind it, stressing years of pressure from Washington to paralyze the project, while some Western countries have pointed in the opposite direction.


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*Updated for 2022 Manaul Pinning Strategies for busy moms*
Struggling with Pinterest? Yeah, the end of 2020 has been totally rough house with Pinterest and some wacky changes!
The good news, I've talked with many of you to learn what you've been doing, what's working and not working, and have set up your 2021 Pinterest strategy for you! Are you ready?
How to Rock Pinterest: Your 2021 Pinterest Strategy
Head on over here for a quick video and learn how to rock your 2021 Pinterest strategy to get consistent traffic and growth to your webstite.
1. Manual Pinning
First off, you want to check out manual pinning. Did I just hear you groan? I'm pretty sure I did! I"m sure when you hear manual pinning, you start picturing yourself spending hours a day on Pinterest. This is not the case… you'll learn more in step 3.
But, Pinterest is leaning more toward manual pinners than Tailwind. Many users on Tailwind have seen a huge decline in traffic, and truth be told, you don't need to schedule a ton of pins all day every day. This means, Tailwind isn't needed anymore (can we say hallelujah for saving money on our business expenses?!)
Manual pinning involves adding new pins, and re-pinning other pins in a very strategic way to maximize your traffic on Pinterest. Yes, it can be overwhelming and confusing to start… but when I walk you through it step by step, it's super simple. As a mom of 5, I'm all about specific, simple, short and to the point activities to get success.
Manual pinning will do that for you. Read about why I prefer manual pining over Tailwind.
2. It's all about fresh pins
Second, it's all about fresh pins. I'm pretty sure I just heard another groan from you.
When I say it's all about fresh pins I mean 1-2 fresh pins a day… not 5-10. Yes, you who have been overwhelmed creating 5 new pins every day for Pinterest. You don't have to do that!
I personally only add one fresh pin a day, and it's OK to add 2, but please don't kill yourself by creating a ton and adding 5-10 pins everyday.
Also… please don't ONLY use fresh pins as your pinning strategy, there is way more to it!
Read more here about how to create a clickable pin.
3. Consistency
Finally, before you groan again, consistency IS NOT being on Pinterest 3-5 times a day. Consistency IS NOT spending hours on Pinterest each week. Consistency IS showing up daily (3-5 days a week), and spending a consistent 5-10 min pinning on the platform.
Thats it?
Yes, that's it! I grew my first business The Merrill Project, from less than a hundred visits a month to thousands by spending 10 min a day on Pinterest, 5 days a week. NO OTHER PROMOTION anywhere else.
It's possible, 100% when you are consistent.
In conclusion
After the way 2020 is ending with Pinterst, many of you feel like you're just going to give up on the platform. I challenge you to stick it out a few months following these 3 tips for your 2021 Pinterest strategy. You've got this!! You will see success.
If you are 100% ready to save money, time and frustration and start manual pinning with specific organized, actionable steps, I guide you every step of the way in my Pinterest Organic Growth Academy check it out HERE.
Pinterest Action Tip:
Accept the Pinterest changes, and move with the 2021 Pinterest marketing flow by following those tips.
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Clean Your Home in Less Time with the Microfiber Cleaning System
I clean my home very often, and it takes a lot of my time. Then before I blink it is dirty again. Since I have three kids, three dogs, and a cat, it is really no surprise how often I must clean. Microfiber Wholesale has a great Microfiber Cleaning System that will help me spend less time cleaning. Now I can take that extra time I have and enjoy my children and my pets.
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- Threaded Handle for the duster (good for reaching high places)
- Assorted Microfiber Towels (To clean everything else)
Dust Mopping
When I opened this Microfiber Cleaning System I was impressed with the simplicity of the set. I easily put the mop together and then I was ready to clean. Then I glided the dust mop across the floor, and caught all sorts of dust bunnies. I was glad they stayed put on the dust mop, and I was not just pushing them into the air or to other places in my house. It was a real quick job to dust mop all the floors in my home. It was much faster than sweeping or other traditional cleaning means.
Wet Mopping
Then I took off the dust mop and put in in the wash. The same tool was now my mop, when I attached a Wet Mop Pad to my handle. In addition to only needing the one handle, it is also adjustable to my height. If you have to stoop to use a broom, it will cause you pain. This tool adjusts to make cleaning comfortable and quick. When you mop, there are three ways to do it with this system. You can wet the mop pad and wring it out, use a spray bottle of water to spray the floor, or use a mop bucket. I used the spray bottle to mop my house.
I was amazed at the shine it left on my floor. Microfiber and water made my floor look so much better, than the floor cleaning chemicals I have used. I tried to get the shine in the picture, but it didn't really show up. You will just have to try yourself and see or take my word for it. My Laminate floors look great!
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Protecting IP is essential in a recession, as Coller IP Management found out with industrial robot upgrade specialists Absolute Robotics.
Life is tough for organisations across all sectors in a downturn and for many companies it is a fight for survival. But it is vital to ensure that aspects of the business such as registering and updating intellectual property do not get neglected — after all, when business is hard to come by the last thing you want is someone stealing your branding or ideas and leaving, putting your survival at risk even further. It is also important for companies to remember that if you are planning to move into different areas of business, your IP needs to change with you. Too often organisations file a patent application and think that that is all they need to do. IP resides not merely in a particular invention, but in the entire way you do business. An organisation's business plan and its IP need to evolve in tandem and it can be all too easy for them to get out of step.
The need to protect IP applies to both new companies and well-established ones. An example of an organisation that has recently sought IP protection is Absolute Robotics. Based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, Absolute Robotics was set up three years ago to develop a concept that upgrades standard industrial robots to make them suitable for advanced manufacturing and aerospace applications.
Robots lose accuracy because of the distortion and expansion of their joints due to the effects of temperature and stiffness. Absolute Robotics developed a method that measures those changes in-line, in real-time and with a very high degree of accuracy. The heart of the system is a new measurement device that uses laser beams and imaging sensors in an entirely novel way to locate the position and orientation of two systems of axes relative to one another.
Calibration without interruption
Imagine a laser sensor that measures distance between two items at a fixed relationship to each other; a laser beam (a laser pointer) and a camera. The next step is to separate the camera from the laser and associate each item with a different set of axes. Then disregard the lens of the camera and calibrate the imaging sensor with respect to one set of axes — and finally determine the vector equation of the laser beam with respect to the other set of axes. This is the principle of the new measurement device.
This concept can be used to calibrate robots in-line under their actual working conditions, over their entire working envelope (cycle) and without interference with the robot's tools or its productivity cycle. It is also a more general solution because it is not robot- or applicationspecific.
Any robot can be calibrated in absolute space without modification and robots can be networked together in absolute space too. This concept allows inline manufacturing to be integrated with in-line quality assurance to achieve zero scrap condition.
Absolute Robotics sensibly decided to ensure that the intellectual property of such a new concept would be fully protected from the beginning — a step which some organisations miss out and often regret later. The company worked with Coller IP Management (CIPM), an IP consultancy that helps organisations understand the value of their intellectual property and how to protect and manage it effectively. CIPM prepared and applied for the required patent applications on behalf of Absolute Robotics and helped them to evaluate the search reports on the inventions to enable the distinctive and innovative features to be identified.
Andreas Demopolous, MD of Absolute Robotics says, "The process of preparing the patent applications was quite painless. The concepts are now open to interested parties and investors for commercial exploitation via exclusive partnerships and licensing agreements." Absolute Robotics is currently presenting the concept to interested parties and some are evaluating it. The next step for the company is to form a partnership with appropriate relevant businesses and create a working prototype. Absolute Robotics thinks that this is most likely to be an in-line measurement application and sees its main future role as the technical integrator of the various technologies involved.


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The Georgia Southern Museum has its own cookbook, and the museum wants you to have it.
The book will be available, for $20, during an open house from 1-5 p.m. Saturday in the College Plaza offices of the museum's outreach programs, Projects SENSE (Science Education Network for the South East) and BESST (Be Engaged in Social Studies Teaching).
The programs, designed to help teachers in the elementary and middle school grades teach science, are the beneficiaries of the cookbook sale.
The cookbook is called "SENSEable Recipes and BESST Cooking."
The open house also will feature special presentations at 2, 3 and 4 p.m., with light refreshments and music by the Hushpuppies, along with a photo wall of fame of teachers from the past 20 years.
GSU Museum to hold open house, cookbook sale
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My blog is back! 🎶 Back again 🎶
Whenever I restart my blog, I always get into the rabbit hole of comparing myself now vs my 20+year old self. How things have changed. I feel like I was an extrovert then, a Social Butterfly! During those times of separation overseas from my normal environment, I had so much to write about, even the embarrassing & the now-cringy ones! It was fun to read but no, I'm not sharing those with y'all! 😆
But one thing is the same, throughout all these years, I knew then that what attracted me to blogging (and eventually, those web platforms) were the technology and the infrastructure that run them. I am amazed by what it could do, even back in the Blogger years of 2004. I had always been wanting to get my hands on these shiny things. Never mind the content, I just want to set things up & use them!
So let's dive for a bit of history shall we? Where have I been through the years.. Buckle up coz it's a long post!
The Whinings & Mumblings in Blogger
It was my first year as a Java Developer when I learned about Blogger. It was a very tight environment. We were so young and fresh out of college so we didn't mind spending overnights in our client's office to finish this big project. It was one of those nights in that little room – it was late as usual and my colleagues start to sleep or take a break or go home. I remember I was stuck troubleshooting something. I think I was searching google for answers and just got frustrated so I switched myself to just trolling the internet (whatever sites available at the time). For some weird reason I found Blogger, I was probably looking at an "Online Diary" or something. And fortunately, it was not yet blocked by the network admins (it wasn't known at the time yet), so I decided to setup my blogger account. And yes, all while using my work computer, sorry, it was a different time!
I had so much fun setting up my page, and the intuitiveness of the platform, back when I didn't know the meaning of "Intuitive UX". There I wrote about my frustrations as my first post – something like "Oh we're here doing overtimes again I'm so sad" things like that. Note: But looking back, I did enjoy that project, and those nights were the best foundation I think, for my professional career. The rest was history. For about three years, I had been blogging mundane things about my life, or as my blog then was appropriately named, "Whinings & Mumblings".
The Japan Adventures at i.ph
Then I discovered a new platform that provided cute looking designs and more customization options for layout. My close friends had also been using it so… I switched to i.ph. Pictures were also part of the package now, so my content is not just all about text. There are still mumblings but at least you get a break with pictures from my Palm Pilot (do you remember those things?!).
I was dispatched in Japan so I have a lot of content in my mind. I wrote about all these amazing things I see and experience in Tokyo – the police station, the sidewalks, all the conveniences provided by the country. Plus being overseas by myself, with a minimum level of social life just limited to my colleagues at the time, I find myself writing all the time.
The platform had to retire though, and I was not able to get my content timely and salvage the pictures. Though I might have the backups somewhere, I just need to dig through my archives.
iWeb and Apple's "Mobile Me"
I moved to Okinawa for another work assignment. Okinawa is a group of small islands south of Japan, as in super South, like you have to ride a plane to get there from Tokyo. It's near the Philippines, though no direct flights. I thought my social life would completely go down the drain but I met friends while stationed there. It's still Japan, so everything is super interesting! Again, being alone in a different country and city, my mind was always bursting with things to think and write about.
Did you know that Apple formerly had a Blogging/Web Platform? It was called "iWeb" and the application came out of the box when you buy a Mac (same as how you get the Pages, Numbers, etc). My intention back then was to use Apple's whole suite of tools. I went on full swing, migrated what I could migrate to iWeb. I signed up for Mobile Me, so I could have the "@me.com" email, and I use it to publish things. Trivia: "Mobile Me" is now iCloud.
I found myself having more free time again to set things up and write. In between studying for SCJP (which I wrote in detail for about 3 months), I wrote about my experiences in Naha, Okinawa. It included some notable experiences like that biking accident (it was very minor, but funny one), my laser hair treatments (that's the only TMI you'll get from now on), and a blow by blow detail of how I eat my food, including that big Pizza Margherita I eat by myself every weekend.
While the iWeb platform gave me lots more design options and a more intuitive user experience to blog and build web pages, the performance fell short. The whole platform is a blackbox for me so I'm unable to get in there and see where I can improve things (as if I knew how to! haha). My website is loading for almost a minute, so I had to think about other options.
Alright, here we are moving to the future! During my time in iWeb, WordPress' popularity has been rising, so it had always been in my radar. I remembered holding off to migrate since I wanted to give iWeb more chances, but eventually I gave up.
What eventually attracted me to WordPress was that it is a packaged thing, something that you can download, setup in your local environment, and even customize things further! Priding myself as a developer then, I thought that I could do this. So there I was setting my dev environment, LAMP stack, things like that. As with every dev's eyes, when you see things run in your localhost, it is a major feat! And I got WordPress running in my local. I attempted to write my own theme.. But errr, it's php, and you work your way around javascript, CSS… I realized that I was not a frontend developer. Sure I played around things, but it was just too tedious for me. Respect to all the Frontend Engineers out there! Plus, my social life has been improving 😀 , so I can't spend too much time on this anymore.
I settled into something in the middle – a hosted WordPress solution, where you kinda 'buy' your infrastructure and "one-click" install WordPress, with a little bit of tweaking in the command lines and server files (I actually felt hardcore every time I do those lol). WordPress was great! I had so much fun changing themes from a thousand of options, and blogging felt so good and easy with a more advanced WYSIWYG UI, widgets and plugins.
But of course there's a downfall. I saved on things by going for a "free" option. I signed up for a free hosting solution. And all I had to do was set things up. I made all the hard work of setting things up, and putting content in without paying for anything. It was up for about 5ish months until it wasn't – no notices, no explanations, it just went poof! Gone! Fortunately I have backups, but that's a big lesson learned. Time and stability is money.
I had to do everything again and this time I went to a more stable one, used one of the popular hosting solutions and this time I paid 😅 . It was a great year of stability but content was lacking. My blog posts during this time were err, so-so. Social Media was booming, blogging was dying a bit. However, while evaluating what I wanted to do with my online life, something glared at my eyes, and it's this shiny new-ish thing called AWS.
I've been in the States for a while by this time, and I have credit cards! So you can imagine my impulsiveness with paying for infrastructure and all these other things to setup my site. I used Lightsail to setup WordPress, and again migrated things. I've been traveling in the US so I got content and pictures most of all, to make things interesting! I followed my process with the pictures, I even was able to edit myself by removing my cringy posts. It is the best version of WordPress website I could ever have. I got no driver's license then (due to VISA restrictions at the time), so I found myself killing time at the mall or Barnes & Noble working on these things after work.
I even offered freelance services to build websites using WordPress. I almost made it a business, along my makeup ventures. I did not have a wealthy portfolio, but I expanded my web enterprises by adding new personal websites to design and fill with content.
For a time, I had a complicated relationship with WordPress. And I even attempted to just build my own thing, as in build web pages from scratch! I was probably thinking of storing my thoughts in GitHub instead of a normal CMS.
My love affair with WordPress eventually ended when my main website got hacked! It's a ransom-ware, they held my WordPress database hostage, my website was inaccessible. I didn't bother to resolve it out, I have backups at least. It hurts for a Software professional to admit being hacked, but hey we live and learn. This time I gotta add Security as a requirement, among other things.
I was getting a bit "richer" so I had now considered paying premium to blog and create websites in a more secured environment. Apart from the security that the infrastructure of Squarespace provides, I was hooked with the minimalist appeal that it offers.
By this time I got tired of setting things up and just wanna focus on design and content. I slowly learned about graphic design and digital art, how pictures can draw your audience in, and that you can get the look you need just through creative editing of pictures. And that I don't have to code everything. I migrated all my personal websites into Squarespace and not looked back to WordPress. I was really hurt by that hacking incident 😀
It all works perfectly, until I got tired of the whole brouhaha of preparing pictures for web consumption. All that editing, resizing and optimizing were too time-consuming for one person. I had been toggling back and forth in Lightroom and Squarespace, only to find that my edit is not as good, so I had to replace and do the whole thing again to upload things. I realized that I'm not blogging so much anyway, all I do was just edit pictures and upload them.
Squarespace unfortunately fell short for me since it hasn't done anything or any effort at all to integrate Lightroom. I wonder if there's an automatic way to just edit, publish and forget.
Adobe Portfolio + WordPress
And here we are finally. I changed my perspective on things and just refocused my attention to just publishing pictures instead of blogging. I've been fiddling around photography for a while now, and I got a DSLR for Christmas, so hey I have to take things seriously. Of course we start with a photography website! 😀
Portfolio, being an Adobe product, ties in beautifully with Lightroom and all the other applications that showcases my Art and creative ventures. I realized that something's missing though. I just couldn't take out blogging entirely, it's part of me now. I tried creating blog posts through Portfolio pages, but it just doesn't jive. So, okey, I gotta use a platform that's made for blogging. But, if I am bringing my blogging thingy back, it has to pass all those infrastructure requirements that failed in the past. It has to be secure, reliable, performant and an additional requirement – it needs to integrate with all my other tools seamlessly.
I looked around voraciously for options to integrate Lightroom with a blogging platform. I found a Lightroom to Format integration, but it missed the mark when it said that it doesn't post directly to the blog posts. And after a bunch of looking, it all went back to… WordPress. I know I know I said I'm not going back to WordPress. But the lack of blogging capabilities of Adobe Portfolio drew me back in. Though at least today, someone finally figured out a way to easily integrate Lightroom. And I'm using a more secure (hopefully) infrastructure for WordPress.
I spent a whole morning to setup a new WordPress site from scratch, all to try the Lightroom plugin. And it was all worth the time and effort. It worked like a charm, the publishing workflow is so easy. Going back to WordPress made the investments I had back then worth it, plus of course the knowledge. I am still in the process of migrating some of my old Content from Squarespace and other platforms.
And here we are, I am keeping both WordPress and Adobe Portfolio to showcase specific functions, like Art, Travel Photography and Photography in general. I feel so good with the separation of concerns. I don't really know if I'll be able to write like I used to during my younger years, we'll see. But anyway, welcome to my next generation Blog! 😀


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Glendale Heights man accused of shooting, killing another man during alleged drug deal
HANOVER PARK, Ill. - A Glendale Heights man has been charged fatally shooting another man during an alleged drug deal.
Around 7:47 p.m. on August 2, 2021, Hanover Park police responded to a home on Pebblebeach Drive for a gunshot victim. As officers headed to the scene, they received a second call for a second gunshot victim at the same location.
After arriving on scene, police found a woman lying on the ground in front of the home with a gunshot wound to her left thigh. Officers entered the home and found the second victim, identified as Marek Krywko, suffering from a gunshot wound to his left thigh that struck his femoral artery.
Krywko was transferred to an area hospital where was pronounced dead.
Police say Richard Goodwin, 55, went to the home with two women to purchase marijuana. At some point, police say the female victim was giving Goodwin a water bottle and he shot her.
Goodwin then allegedly shot Krywko before fleeing the scene with the two women he showed up with.
Goodwin was taken into custody on August 25 from his home without incident, police said.
Richard Goodwin, 55
"I commend the Hanover Park Police Department for their efforts in the identification and apprehension of the suspect in this case," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert B. Berlin said in a statement. "To the family and friends of Mr. Krywko, I offer my condolences as they mourn this senseless loss of life."
Michael Menough is the Hanover Park police chief.
"While this arrest cannot erase the loss of Mr. Krywko, my hope is that the charging of Mr. Goodwin will bring Mr. Krywko's family some comfort as they grieve," Menough said.
Goodwin is being held on $500,000 bond. He's been charged with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
Goodwin is due in court Sept. 17.


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In this article we will discuss about the similarities and benefits of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depository Receipts (GDRs).
Issue of ADRs and GDRs:
Depository Receipts (DRs) are a type of negotiable (transferable) financial security that can be traded on a local stock exchange, representing ownership of shares in companies of other countries.
As a part of globalizing the economy, the government undertook two major steps – that of allowing Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) to invest in the Indian capital market and permitting Indian companies to float their stock in foreign markets.
An Indian company can raise finances from other countries investors by issue of any of the instruments like American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depository Receipts (GDRs).
An ADR is a stock which can be traded in the United States, representing a specified number of shares of a foreign company.
ADRs are bought and sold on the American stock exchanges.
A foreign company might make an issue in U.S. by issuing securities through appointment of U.S. bank as depository.
By keeping the securities issued by a foreign company, the U.S. bank will issue receipts called American Depository Receipts (ADRs) to the investors.
It is a negotiable instrument recognizing a claim on foreign security.
Depository receipts that are traded on the stock exchanges in other parts of the globe are called 'Global Depository Receipts' (GDRs).
These are commonly listed on European stock exchanges, such as the Luxembourg and London stock exchanges or on the Asian stock exchanges such as the Dubai and Singapore stock exchanges.
The issue of ADRs/GDRs are governed by the provisions of the Issue of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and Ordinary Shares (Through Depository Receipt Mechanism) Scheme, 1993.
Similarities of ADRs and GDRs:
Except the difference as above, ADRs and GDRs have the following similarities:
1. Both ADRs and GDRs are usually denominated in US dollars.
2. Though the ADR/GDR is quoted and traded in dollar terms, the underlying equity shares are denominated in rupees only.
3. Instead of issuing in the names of individual shareholders, the shares are issued by the company to an intermediary called the 'depository', usually in overseas depository bank, in whose name the shares are registered.
4. It is the depository, which subsequently issues ADRs/GDRs to the subscribing public.
5. The physical possession of the equity shares will be with another intermediary called the 'custodian'.
6. The custodian will act as an agent of the depository.
7. Though ADRs/GDRs represents the company's shares it has a distinct identity and does not figure in the books of the company.
8. The shares usually correspond to the ADR/GDR in a fixed ratio.
9. The ADRs/GDRs could be issued in a negotiable form.
10. The ADRs/GDRs can be redeemed at the price of the corresponding shares of the issuing company ruling on the date of redemption.
11. The holder of ADR/GDR can transfer the instrument as in case of domestic instrument and also entitled for dividends as and when declared.
12. The ADR/GDR holder can ask the bank for the original foreign security by exchanging the ADR/GDR.
13. Both are negotiable instruments, their holders are entitled to corporate benefits such as dividend, bonus shares and rights issues.
14. The holders of both the instruments may exercise their vote through the Overseas Depository Bank (ODB).
15. Both can be sold outside India in their existing form. The underlying shares arising after redemption can be sold in India.
16. Sale of both outside India to nonresidents is not taxable in India.
17. Redemption of both into underlying shares is tax-exempt in India.
18. Dividend income received by ADR holder or the holder of underlying shares is not taxed in their hands.
19. After the transfer of shares, where consideration is in terms of rupee payment, the normal tax rates would apply to the income arising or accruing on these shares.
20. ADRs are listed on an American Stock Exchange, where as all GDRs are listed in a stock exchange other than American Stock Exchange, say London or Luxemburg.
21. The disclosure requirements for GDR issues are less stringent.
Benefits of ADR/GDR Issue:
To Indian Company:
1. Better corporate image both in India and abroad which is useful for strengthening the business operations in the overseas market.
2. Exposure to international markets and hence stock prices in line with international trends.
3. Means of raising capital abroad in foreign exchange.
4. Use of the foreign exchange proceeds for activities like overseas acquisitions, setting up offices abroad and other capital expenditure.
5. Increased recognition internationally by bankers, customers, suppliers etc.
6. No risk of foreign exchange fluctuations as the company will be paying the interest and dividends in Indian rupees to the domestic depository bank.
7. The issuer company collects the issue proceeds in foreign currency and thus able to utilize the same for meeting the foreign exchange component of project cost, repayment of foreign currency loans etc.
8. Large amount can be raised in the global market without much of a problem.
9. The issue proceeds may be retained outside India and used for approved end uses like import of capital goods, repayment of ECBs, purchase of plant and equipment etc.
To Overseas Investors:
1. Assured liquidity due to presence of market makers.
2. Convenience to investors as ADRs are quoted and pay dividends in U.S. dollars, and they trade exactly like other U.S. securities.
3. Cost-effectiveness due to elimination of the need to customize underlying securities in India.
4. Overseas investors will not be taxed in India in respect of capital gains on transfer of ADRs to another nonresident outside India.
5. The identity of ADR/GDR holders is kept confidential since they are freely transferable.
6. Quick settlement of ADRs/GDRs due to the existence of international systems like Euroclear and Cedel in Europe and the Depository Trust Company in the U.S.
7. ADRs/GDRs are designated in foreign currency, which is acceptable to global investors.
8. Global investors/holders of ADRs/GDRs don't need to be registered with SEBI.


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HOWDY. It's the start of the spring/summer reception period — meaning we're bracing for twin seasonal scourges to bring peak misery: allergies and FOMO. We'll say our sniffles are caused by pollen … but maybe it's because we've learned that, once again, EU Influence appears to have been left off the guest list for the U.S. Mission's Independence Day soirée, on June 27. My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, from thee I sting.
FRUSTRATION AHEAD OF EU ETHICS PLAN: As I reported in Wednesday morning's Playbook, Commission VP for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová told top MEPs that her proposal for an interinstitutional ethics body — due in May, after long delay — won't have investigative powers. Instead, it would create a "general framework on ethics and standards" for nine institutions … but then each institution would decide for itself on how this would apply to its own internal rules.
No-body: For longtime advocates of an independent ethics enforcer, this pretty much amounts to a broken promise. "The EU won't have an ethics body," said Alberto Alemanno, The Good Lobby founder and transparency campaigner, reacting Wednesday morning.
Blaming VDL: Daniel Freund, the lead coordinator of the Parliament's 2021 resolution on an ethics body, said such an initiative was a "central campaign promise" when then-German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen was trying to convince MEPs to back her for Commission president. "She's about to break it," the German Green MEP added.
"What Jourová outlines has nothing to do with previous debates on the body," he said, calling it "label fraud." Rather than harmonizing standards, eliminating the "existing system of self-policing" is what's needed to prevent the next scandal, Freund said.
SAME OL' STALEMATE: Nearly six months after Qatargate was made public, the reality is that little has changed in the ethics body discussion. Sure, Jourová gave some brief signals in February that maybe it could get more teeth. But the bottom line seems to be that her office has long been stymied in any effort to put forward a more stringent proposal by legal constraints and partisan divisions within the Parliament itself.
Left-right split: In 2021, the Parliament plenary did throw its support behind the idea of an independent EU ethics body with the power to investigate breaches. But looking at the actual votes, you'll see the house was hardly united. While 377 MEPs (primarily from left-leaning parties) backed the measure, only six of those votes came from the center-right European People's Party. Only three EPP MEPs voted against it, although most — 162 in total — abstained. Objections centered around maintaining elected parliamentarians' freedom of mandate and legal concerns about investigative powers.
Still a factor: As Jourová's team has tried to consult and win political buy-in from the other institutions that would be subject to the ethics body, internal resistance in the Parliament has remained a sticking point. It came up again in Jourová's meeting with the Conference of President's last week, according to a readout of the private gathering.
German EPP MEP Sven Simon, the center-right's point person on the matter, "disagreed with many provisions" of the Parliaments' resolutions, "especially objecting to investigative powers." But he backed the idea of a standard-setting body. (Simon's team declined to comment on private discussions, but his position is in line with public EPP statements.)
Right's not (necessarily) wrong: Jourová told MEPs the Commission's legal service had said EU treaties would need to be changed to give the ethics body investigative powers — though this take is vociferously challenged by advocates of an ethics institution with teeth. (The Commission did not reply to a request for comment by deadline, citing the Europe Day holiday.)
METSOLA IN THE MIDDLE: Among those EPP MEPs to abstain on the ethics body resolution years ago: Roberta Metsola, then a Parliament VP.
Awkward position: As president during the scandal, Metsola has taken pains to show she wants urgent reforms to the Parliament. Yet powerful players in her own group are reluctant to make big changes. "The President welcomes the Commission's commitment to follow-up on the European Parliament's initiative on a new EU Ethics Body," a spokesperson wrote in, emphasizing that as president, she now stand's behind the Parliament's position.
SEPARATELY, ON FARA FEARS: Jourová also addressed concerns from NGOs that the Commission's planned Defense of Democracy package, with higher disclosure requirements, would hurt civil society and fuel efforts like those in Hungary to silence critics. Those concerns are "not substantiated," the readout said she told MEPs, "as they would not lead to labelling or stigmatisation of the NGOs." She added that the Commission intends to improve the environment for civil society.
"Their official pitch is: 'You sponsor me, I organize an event for you' … The unofficial pitch is: 'You sponsor me, I give you access to this or that MEP, I invite this or that person.'"
— A tech industry insider who's worked with EU40, a networking group for young MEPS once helmed by Eva Kailli. Read my colleague Gian Volpicelli's profile of the organization, which is seeing staff and (supposed) members race for the exits.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS (IN PENCIL): As Eddy Wax and I just reported, the European Parliament elections are expected to be held from June 6 to June 9, 2024 — though not if Portugal has anything to say about it.
WHAT THE ELECTION MEANS FOR YOUR LOBBYING PLANS: The readout of last week's Conference of President's meeting, prepared by the S&D secretariat and obtained by EU Influence, shows MEPs are somewhat torn between how to prioritize finishing files — there are some 200 left — versus hitting the campaign trail. Conference of Committee Chairs chair (oof), Bernd Lange, issued a series of proposals, which were endorsed.
Committee meetings and votes: Lange proposed, gently, that political groups allow committee meetings to be spread "efficiently" throughout the week, including Monday and Thursday afternoons. This drew a mixed reaction — the EPP leaned more toward campaign time, urging no committee meetings in Strasbourg, and no committee votes on Mondays or Thursdays.
Initiatives: Requests for "own initiative reports" — or resolutions that originate in the Parliament — must be be submitted to the Conference of Committee Chairs by June 13 of this year.
Priorities: Metsola said that legislative files in the EU Joint Declaration would take priority.
RELIEVED OVER QATARGATE RULES: My colleague Eddy Wax reports that the official organization representing ex-MEPs is now breathing a sigh of relief over new rules that tighten up their access to the institution — but not as much as they first feared.
Badge barrage: In the immediate aftermath of the Qatargate scandal, the Parliament considered revoking the permanent badges that former MEPs enjoy, according to an early draft of President Roberta Metsola's reforms that was dated January 12 and seen by POLITICO. "We could replace permanent access badges currently granted to former Members with new daily access badges," the document suggested.
Panzeri scheme: The idea behind this was to put an end to the unfettered access enjoyed by the likes of ex-MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri — a central figure in the corruption scandal — who appears to have used his unchanged access to the Parliament to build and maintain a network and grow his human rights NGO.
Compromise: In the end the Parliament didn't go that far, with the Bureau of 15 top MEPs deciding last month that former members should now email in advance to ensure their badges are reactivated for a given period. So they won't be relegated to the status of mere random visitors, having to queue up for a sticker each time they want to return to their beloved EP. But the Parliament will now have more data about who's coming in, why and when.
Badge of honor: Klaus Hänsch, 84, the head of the Former Members Association, said the Bureau decision "no longer shows the intention of punishing the behavior of the former members." He brandished his dark blue badge and held it aloft. "This is kept, this is not destroyed, I simply have it," he told Eddy.
Couple bad apples: Hänsch, who presided over the Parliament between 1994 and 1997, argued the majority of its 700-odd members shouldn't be punished for the actions of a few ex-MEPs abusing privileges. Beyond Panzeri, "all the others really did nothing wrong or failed [in terms of] our statutes," he said. FMA expelled Panzeri officially last week.
Cooled off: Hänsch spoke to Parliament President Roberta Metsola over the badge rules, but didn't mention the new six-month hiatus, considering it not really much of an issue. "I never thought about the cooling-off period," he said.
EU DIRECTORY, REDACTED: To the surprise of no one, the Commission's reply to lobbyist Aaron McLoughlin's document request about the rationale for removing junior bureaucrats from the public EU WhoisWho directory did not prove particularly enlightening. He plans to appeal.
ICYMI — THE FREE RIDERS: EU Influence alum Lili Bayer dives back into the accountability beat with this investigation into commissioners' accommodation paid for by third-party governments. That includes top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi and Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans. Among their hosts: Qatar, Morocco, Israel and Jordan. Of course, it's all within the rules.
FACIAL RECOGNITION FINE: The Spanish privacy regulator has fined global telecoms association GSMA €200,000 for deploying a facial recognition system at its flagship Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. More from Clothilde Goujard.
TAKING THE PULSE OF WOMEN NGO BOSSES: A survey backed by progressive European political foundations is asking women decision-makers in European civil society organizations to weigh in on work and life. There are typical items you'd expect about balance and mission; as well as open-ended questions about how much their employers are supporting them through challenges like motherhood and menopause.
Under pressure: From climate to COVID, #MeToo to #BLM — all in the context of funding crunches and donor pressures … the "urgency of transition requires us to really rethink organizational structures," said Joanna Maycock, a feminist leadership expert conducting the research with systemic change specialist Celine Charveriat. "If we're going to help these pioneer women leaders to change the system, what do we need to be doing differently?" Maycock said.
Time line: The deadline to fill out the survey is Monday, and it is to be followed by focus groups. Maycock said a draft report is planned for September, with a series of target launches aimed at donors and institutions.
Backers: FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies), FES (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), GEF (Green European Foundation) and Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
BIG PHIL'S BIG CLIENTS: JP Morgan, Visa and Vodafone are among the clients who've signed up for advice from ex-Commissioner Phil Hogan, the Irish Independent reports. (When we bumped into Hogan at a fête last summer in Brussels, he handed us a business card with a Dublin address — and he's not listed in the Transparency Register.)
ORBÁN'S MAN IN BRUSSELS: Who would've thought Budapest would send a former Trotskyite to be its EU thought leader? Gian Volpicelli has this profile of Frank Furedi, head of the MCC Brussels think tank.
— Emmanuel Achiri will start working as a policy and advocacy adviser at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).
— Emilie Mercier has been promoted to European projects director for the EU affairs office of the electricity utility group EDF.
— Stéphane Saurel has been promoted to head of the Institutional and Regulatory Affairs Division at the Permanent Representation of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
— Franziska Annerl started working as a Brussels news correspondent for APA – Austria Presse Agentur, after spending 17 years as a press officer for the EU Representation of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
— Luc Triangle was named acting chief of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), following the ousting of Luca Visentini over connections to the Qatargate scandal. (Visentini denies wrongdoing). Triangle, who had been serving as general secretary of industriAll Europe, will remain in the post until a new general secretary is elected at the ITUC's extraordinary world congress in late September.
— Nikos Papandreou becomes an MEP, replacing Pasok leader Nikos Androulakis, who is a candidate in Greek national elections.
— Arianne Sikken has started as press officer at the European Parliament, with a focus on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Dutch media. Sikken was previously press officer at the Council.
— Cecilie Sif Sinding will become, as of May 15, a political adviser at the European Parliament for Renew MEPs Morten Løkkegaard, Asger Christensen and Erik Poulsen.
— Christian Borggreen, the head of the technology lobby CCIA Europe, will leave his post next month.
— Tomas Vitas (a POLITICO alum), after a brief stint at Wachsman in Switzerland, is back in Brussels as a senior consultant for digital and tech with Teneo.
THANKS TO: Eddy Wax, Aoife White and especially Ketrin Jochecová; web producer Giulia Poloni and my editor Sonya Diehn.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this newsletter misspelled the name of lobbyist Aaron McLoughlin. This newsletter has also been updated to correctly describe the organizations backing a survey of women NGO leaders. They are European political foundations.
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Caulk or, less frequently, caulking is a material used to seal joints or seams against leakage in various structures and piping.
The oldest form of caulk consisted of fibrous materials driven into the wedge-shaped seams between boards on wooden boats or ships. Cast iron sewerage pipe were formerly caulked in a similar way. Riveted seams in ships and boilers were formerly sealed by hammering the metal.
Modern caulking compounds are flexible sealing compounds used to close up gaps in buildings and other structures against water, air, dust, insects, or as a component in firestopping. In the tunnelling industry, caulking is the sealing of joints in segmental precast concrete tunnels, commonly by using concrete.
Historical uses
Wooden shipbuilding
Traditional caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum (hemp) soaked in pine tar. These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with a caulking mallet and a broad chisel-like tool called a caulking iron. The caulking is then covered over with a putty, in the case of hull seams, or else in deck seams with melted pine pitch, in a process referred to as paying, or "calefaction". Those who carried out this work were known as caulkers. In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Ezekiel refers to the caulking of ships as a specialist skill.
Dried-out caulking on the Severn trow Spry, now displayed on shore
Iron or steel shipbuilding
In riveted steel or iron ship construction, caulking was a process of rendering seams watertight by driving a thick, blunt chisel-like tool into the plating adjacent to the seam. This had the effect of displacing the metal into a close fit with the adjoining piece.
Caulking of iron and steel, of the same type described above for ship's hulls, was also used by boilermakers in the era of riveted boilers to make the joints watertight and steamtight.
Modern use in construction
To caulk in the building trades is to close up joints and gaps in buildings. Caulking provides thermal insulation, controls water penetration and reduces noise transmission.
For bulk use, caulk is generally distributed in disposable cartridges, which are rigid cylindrical cardboard or plastic tubes with an applicator tip at one end, and a movable plunger at the far end. These are used in caulking guns, which typically have a trigger connected to a rod which pushes the plunger, and has a ratchet to prevent backlash. The push rod may also be actuated by a motor or by compressed air. Similar mechanisms are used for grease guns.
For smaller applications, caulk may be distributed in squeeze tubes.
Backer rod
Backer rod, also called backer material or back-up rod, is a flexible foam product used behind caulking to increase elasticity, reduce consumption, force the caulking into contact with the sides of the joint creating a better bond, determine the thickness of the caulking, and define the cross-section hour-glass shape of the caulk. The backer rod also acts as a bond breaker to keep the caulking from sticking to the bottom of the opening—called a three-sided bond—with the caulk only adhering to the sides of the opening in an hour-glass shape it can flex more easily and is less likely to tear. Backer rods can also be used to reduce consumption of the caulking by filling part of the joints.
Backer rod is often round and rope-like in shape but many special types and shaped such as square, rectangular and D-shapes are available. High temperature backer rods are available. It is available in different diameters and firmness, and in polyethylene and polyurethane materials. Backer rod also comes in open-cell and closed-cell types of foam.
Closed-cell foam does not absorb water and is impermeable. Closed-cell rods are less compressible and should not be compressed more than 25%. Closed-cell rod will also lose firmness and out-gas if damaged during installation or overcompressed or at sharp bends. The gasses cannot pass through this backer rod and can deform, weaken, and even cause holes (leaks) in the sealant as it escapes.
Out-gassing is the reason that open-cell backer rod was developed. Open-cell foam is porous so it will let gasses through which could otherwise cause blistering of the sealant. Additionally, open-cell backer rod allows air to get to the back side of the sealant which accelerates curing when used with air-cured sealants such as silicone. Open-cell rod is more compressible than closed-cell foam and should be compressed 25% to 75%.
Energy efficiency
According to the Consumer Federation of America, sealing unwanted leaks around homes is an excellent way to cut home energy costs and decrease the household carbon footprint.
Also, sealing cracks and crevices around homes lessens the strain on home appliances and can save time, money and hassle by preventing major repairs. Additionally, increasing the lifetime of homes and appliances also puts less waste and pollution into landfills.
Preventing infestation
Sealing cracks and crevices prevents ingress by rodents.
Silicone caulk is a mold- and mildew-resistant sealant. It has high flexibility and less likely to crack, peel, and distort on buildings with movement.
Acrylic latex
The most common type of caulk is acrylic latex, for general-purpose use. Not only is acrylic latex inexpensive, but it is also the easiest type to apply smoothly and later paint if needed.
Acrylic tile sealant
Acrylic tile sealant usually comes in small tubes and is commonly used for wet applications.
Vinyl latex
On average lasts longer than the more common acrylic latex caulking.
Very durable and professional grade.


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Bengaluru, May 25: The news of India's launch of a Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has been blown out of proportion by the media, according to a report in "Space Review," an online journal from Washington devoted to analysing key space issues and events across the world.
On May 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the RLV-TD, a winged vehicle almost resembling an aircraft, to an altitude of 65 km and navigated it to descend and land at a pre-determined spot in the sea.
The successful test was viewed as demonstrating India's space technology prowess and joining an elite club of space-faring nations like the US, Russia and France.
The sleek 1.7-tonne RLV was latched on top of a 15-tonne rocket with a booster for lift-off from the spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, about 80km north of Chennai, off the Bay of Bengal coast.
The vehicle was tracked during its flight from ground stations at Sriharikota and a ship-borne terminal.
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian scientists.
Mukherjee, in a message, said: "Heartiest congratulations to ISRO Team on successful launch of India's first indigenous space shuttle RLV-T."
Modi said in a tweet: "The dynamism and dedication with which our scientists and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) have worked over the years is exceptional and very inspiring."
But the Space Review report by Wing Commander Kiran Nair of the Centre for Airpower Studies in New Delhi says that while ISRO officials had themselves described the launch as a "demonstration" and a "baby step" toward building a reusable launcher, the media went overboard and called the vehicle "India's own Space Shuttle" and the test flight a "Hanuman Leap."
Comparing the RLV-TD with the US space shuttle "is totally out of place", the report says.
"While the country is justifiably proud about the test flight, elevating it to the same level as the Shuttle is premature and inappropriate. Space Shuttle was a fully operational vehicle. The RLV-TD is only a test vehicle."
Many other huge differences exist between the two, and thus it's essential to perceive the RLV in light of its own competencies and unique Indian purpose, rather than draw unfair comparisons with the Space Shuttle, it says.
"Simply put, the test launch does not herald the addition of an Indian Space Shuttle to ISRO's inventory straightaway. It only marks the beginning of a technically challenging endeavor."
The report cautions that one should temper hype with reality "as premature jubilation carries the hazard of raising expectations unreasonably".
The report has also raised questions about the affordability of a Space Shuttle for a country like India, considering the huge investment required.
It says the US spent an estimated $192 billion on the shuttle programme from 1971 to 2010. "The average cost per launch works out to $1.2 billion, which is as much as the total annual Indian space budget. It is a costly experiment that India can ill-afford."
An Indian missile scientist who did not want to be named, agreed.
"Massive funds amounting to billions of dollars will be needed by ISRO for RLV," the scientist told this correspondent. "Once the RLV programme gets support, the clash for funds within ISRO will begin with other projects in ISRO competing for money," he said.
"The first test flight of RLV-TD validated ISRO's aerodynamics engineering and their guidance and control expertise but, beyond that, nothing can be correctly inferred about the value of this launch."
According to ISRO, an RLV will reduce the cost of launching satellites to one-tenth. The Space Review report says differently.
"Despite its numerous achievements, like launching satellites and repairing the Hubble Space Telescope, the feeling among NASA officials and space experts was that the US Shuttle failed to lower the cost of access to space," the report says.
"An analysis showed that the incremental per-pound launch costs turned to be higher than those of regular expendable rockets."
Space planes have not met with much success elsewhere either, the report says.
Europe's Hermes space plane was approved in 1987 but cancelled in 1992 due to funding problems and Japan scrapped its HOPE-X shuttle in 2003, mainly due to financial reasons. The Soviet Union's Buran programme — started in 1974 in response to the US Space Shuttle programme — was cancelled in 1993 after just one unmanned orbital spaceflight in 1988.
India has no space station and hence the requirement of a human-certified aerospace plane is some time away. But the RLV certainly has enormous uses to plug gaps in Earth observation and communications, says the report.
"Overall," the report says, "disassociating expectations from the Space Shuttle and viewing the RLV in a uniquely Indian context makes more sense."
US-based billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin have recently conducted similar test launches.
SpaceX tested its Falcon 9 rocket in December while Blue Origin's New Shepard completed a third launch and vertical landing in April.
NASA, however, grounded its space shuttle programme in 2011 after using its reusable vehicles like Discovery, Endeavor, Columbia and Challenger as a space transportation system for over three decades since 1981 to launch various missions, including International Space Station (ISS) and Hubble telescope.
Shalini Singh with K.S.Jayaraman
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