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When The unspoken words unable to hold themselves in the emotional sky, they fall on paper..... like those of condensed and weighty clouds fall as rain drops on earth....
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Tina the warrior !! superb !!ReplyDeleteReplies
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This surely is a 'WOW' post. I could have never imagined this story line. Completely out of the box. Well done. Well written.ReplyDeleteReplies
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What a way to express the unimaginable power of words and the power which women hold within themselves. Great post Tina :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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While reading your poem through I was wondering how will you incorporate the "coffee shop". You have woven the story in your poem so smooth. Everything gets blended together in a complete flow of words.
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I don't like coffee ! As I love Morning Tea @8.12 am ! But I loved your poem . Hope to see you read my book : Journey from Guwahati to Machhiwara : in 16 country , 118 library India , 3 in USA , while sipping your StarBucks coffee ! 😂😂😂😂ReplyDeleteReplies
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Fort Worth, Texas, and San Francisco – April 2, 2019 – TPG, a leading global alternative asset firm, proudly announced that the firm received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation's premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. TPG joins the ranks of over 560 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this year. 2019 represents the second year in a row that TPG has been recognized for its perfect score.
"We believe that developing a diverse and inclusive culture is essential to attracting and retaining talent, building strong businesses, and creating value for our investors," said Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri, Chief Human Resources Officer of TPG. "We are deeply committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at every level of our organization, and continually review our policies and practices to ensure they are effective in supporting the needs of a diverse population. We are delighted to share our CEI score with the TPG community and thank the Human Rights Campaign for their support and unwavering dedication to advancing LGBTQ workplace equality."
The 2019 CEI evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. TPG's efforts in satisfying all of the CEI's criteria results in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.
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I'm working on this bug to add (quickly) generation capabilities for Apache Camel. There will be a tutorial on it at EclipseCon 2008, that's why it's being done quickly :) As I go along, I'm taking some development notes for reproduction here.
EID extracts all the models from the org.eclipse.stp.eid/componentModel directory and puts them into a .cimero2 directory in your home.
Next, each component in the .cimero2 is opened, scanned, and there is an attempt to detect the ESB to which that component belongs to see if it is the same as the one that has been chosen at startup time.
If a component is offered by the chosen ESB, a component model gets created in memory including the name for the component, what ESB it belongs to, the icon for it and the component type. Then it's added to the list of component models, which gets reflected on the palette (see org.eclipse.stp.eid.Parser).
Because of the way this is done, you can add your very own component model definitions in this directory, and they will be available on the palette when the canvas starts up.
- The startup could be streamlined - unloading all of the component models to a directory and then going back again to the directory and rummaging through all of the files that are there is heavy. It would be better to load the component models directly from the plugin jar and only then look in the .cimero2 directory. With a planned structure in there, it would be possible to load all of the appropriate component models, without having to open all the XML files and parse them.
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What is WordPress Caching?
Caching Involves generating — and storing — a readymade static (i.e. unchanging) version of your site in your own server ready to display to people at a moment's notice. This reduces the demand for your site (or the consumer's browsers) to communicate back and forth with the host to assemble the behind-the-scenes information that generates your site's web pages.
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WP Rocket Will potentially.
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· Defer loading of JavaScript files
· Decrease bandwidth usage with gzip compression
· optimise Google fonts
· minify and concatenate CSS and JS files
· Defer loading of images.
You might Be wondering what happens if you publish a new blog article on a cached website, since, paradoxically, an unchanging cached version of your site wouldn't take this newly created data into consideration.
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The Fundamental SETTINGS
If you do Choose to explore the additional settings and options WP Rocket provides, you'll see it's a few tricks up its sleeve for possibly improving speed much further, like the choice to only load media files (such as pictures ) when the visitor reaches them onto a webpage (a feature called Lazy Loading).
One of The highlights of WP Rocket is the easy installation process, which makes it a pretty much fool proof caching choice for busy WordPress webmasters. It's described as being'childishly simple to set up' — something users who only need to get the job done and move on will almost surely appreciate. Wp Rocket Infinite
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In fact, Once the plugin has been uploaded and activated on your site, the cache will be automatically generated whenever someone visits the website. Everybody visiting your site thereafter should instantly start experiencing significantly quicker loading times. Simple!
WP Rocket Aims to remove all such confusion by being automatically up-and-running right from the box — without being so stiff that it's not able to deliver excellent results. After tripping WP Rocket, you'll see only a couple of tabs around the admin panel, each with just a few easy-to-understand settings.
You can See the rest of the basic settings display here. While there are a couple more options to utilize, the plugin works just fine without any of them empowered. This truly is plug'n' play with caching for WordPress!
Of Course, it is suggested that you browse the online documentation to really see what this plugin could do and just how much additional performance you can squeeze from it, but, for all those in a hurry (or using a zero technical interest in the ins-and-outs of caching), it's safe to say that speeding up your website using WP Rocket could not be made easier.
The primary Selling point of WP Rocket is how simple it makes enabling caching on your website. Together with many other caching plugins, you are faced with the sometimes daunting task of knowing — and filling out — several pages of settings and options. Depending on how you configure them, you might easily wind up accidentally doing something somewhat screwy (and even, in rare situations, inadvertently breaking up your site).
WP Rocket Is also compatible with content delivery network (CDN) services. If your website is large enough to warrant distributing its files to multiple servers around the world for faster loading times, you'll find WP Rocket more than accommodating.
There is Also the choice to alter the default cache expiry interval. But, unless you're displaying especially fast-changing or important external dynamic content onto your own site (such as critical content from social networking feeds), the default 24-hour lifespan should be OK.
Cache — Fundamental Cache Options
The Cache tab lets you control How your page caching functions at a basic level? you're able to. Wp Rocket Infinite
· Include/exclude mobile users from viewing cached pages.
· Include/exclude logged-in users from visiting cached pages.
· Enable caching on HTTPS pages.
· Decide how long a webpage stays cached before the cache gets cleared (the default is 10 hours).
The Majority of the time, you can Leave these as the defaults.
Media — Lazy loading + More
In the Media tab, you can empower Lazy loading for images and/or videos, in addition to disable WordPress emojis and embeds.
One feature That is really nice here is the option to replace YouTube video frames using a static preview picture. If you embed lots of YouTube videos on your site, this is a excellent way to speed up your site without sacrificing much, if anyusability.
Document Optimization — Minification And Concatenation
The File Optimization tab is Where you can set up WP Rocket's minification and concatenation performance.
· Minification — shrinks the size of your site's code by removing unnecessary characters (such as whitespace) without changing any functionality.
· Concatenation — reduces the amount of files on your website by blending multiple CSS/JS documents into a single.
You can also install some other Settings like.
· Eliminate render-blocking CSS/JS (PageSpeed Insights is notorious for yelling at you about this problem ).
· Combining Google Fonts files (helpful if you use multiple Google Fonts in your own site).
· Eliminate query strings from static resources (this one won't have a big effect, but it might enhance your GTmetrix score, even should you really care about that).
I recommend Enabling as a number of these configurations as possible. I state as possible because a number of those settings for CSS or JS may cause issues with your site (this is not WP Rocket's error — it is always a possible problem with minification/concatenation).
What I like is that WP Rocket Makes this clear when you go to trigger one of these settings.
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Preload — Preload Your Own Cache File
Without Preloading, your site only"assembles" the cache for a page when someone actually visits the page. That means the first visitor after the cache lifespan expires doesn't see the cached version (because the cache has not been built yet).
Cache Preloading enables you to guarantee all visitors see the quick-loading cached page by"warming" the cache yourself, instead of waiting for someone to see the webpage.
One of those Benefits of WP Rocket is that it gives you two different ways to preload your cache, whereas a few caching plugins don't even offer one.
· Sitemap preloading — preloads your cache based on all the pages in your sitemap.xml file. It has low impact, but the disadvantage is that it does not cache newly edited or published posts.
· Preload bot — automatically crawls URLs once you publish/edit a post to ensure that newly edited/published content can be preloaded. The only downside is that it is a little bit more resource intensive, which could cause issues on"weak" servers. Wp Rocket Infinite
You can choose to use zero, One, or the two methods to preload your cache, depending upon your needs.
Database — Clean Up Your Database
As your site ages, your Database will pick up all types of"gunk" in the form of revisions, trashed comments, transients, etc..
This area helps you wash out All that unnecessary crap from your database with a single click.
Personally, I find this to be The least exciting region of WP Rocket because there are plenty of free plugins that do a great job cleaning your database. However, I guess the main advantage here is that WP Rocket removes the need for you to put in another plugin.
CDN — Integrate With Your CDN
If you use a CDN to accelerate The global delivery of your site, WP Rocket can help you.
· Rewrite your URLs to use your CDN
· Exclude certain files from your CDN
As You can find complimentary Plugins to do the first component, the second part, plus the fact that you're able to book CNAMEs for specific file types, provides you more flexibility than most of those free options.
By Way of Example, you may use one CNAME for your pictures, and another for the remainder of your files.
If you're using Cloudflare, WP Rocket also includes a dedicated Cloudflare add-on which could help you get setup using Cloudflare and control certain facets of the Cloudflare service right from the WP Rocket interface.
And that pretty much sums up The new WP Rocket 3.0 interface!
Through The plugin configurations, you could even enable caching for both mobile users and logged-in users all with a simple click. After moving on to this'advanced' tab, however, things start to get a bit more complicated.
To give you greater control over how caching Works on your site, you're also free to exclude pages in the cache with the addition of their URLS to the'not cache the following pages'
Through The CDN tab, you can configure the plugin to work with your content delivery system of choice, while the tools section gives you quick access to the very clear and preload cache programs.
What's? More, in the event you get stuck, the FAQ and support tabs make it incredibly simple to access the online instruction, and even open a service ticket from within your WordPress dash — a lovely touch!
In General, WP Rocket intends to be all things to all people. On one hand, it is quite easy to prepare and start using on your website with default settings which actually produce good results, yet, on the flip side, there is also an appreciably large selection of settings and options to appeal to more sophisticated users with particular needs, or those who need more control over how caching works on their site.
By Default, each time you publish a new article or add new content to your website, WP Rocket will regenerate that portion of the cache. Not only that, but will also refresh the related areas of the cache (including the archive pages, menus, or widgets). Wp Rocket Infinite
If You have to refresh everything in the cache, however (not just newly updated or modified content), it is possible to induce WP Rocket to regenerate it from scratch. Going a step farther, you'll also find choices to have unrelated parts of your website automatically regenerated when a new post, page, merchandise, remark, or another kind of content gets added.
field. (Note. Shopping cart and checkout pages are automatically excluded from the cache as part of their eCommerce support of WP Rocket.)
Documentation And Support
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As long As your licence remains active, you can also open tickets with support to get whatever WP Rocket-related help you need?
My WP Rocket Testing Outcomes
As Mentioned at the top of this guide, I had great results from using WP Rocket to cache my WordPress website. By testing the speed of my site with GTmetrix — using the default settings of WP Rocket and simply uploading and activating the plugin before creating the cache and conducting the tests — the ordinary page loading times dropped from 2.2 seconds to 0.9.
The site I tested the plugin was a WordPress blog using the free Twenty Twelve motif, with about 80 articles and 37 active plugins. The website is hosted on a entry level shared hosting program from HostGator, and has no CDN in play.
No two WordPress sites will be the same, though, so that these results may not be common for all websites. They do, however, show that a very basic WordPress blog on the cheapest hosting will almost surely have the ability to achieve significantly improved load times together with the plugin.
Additional Methods to Accelerate Your WordPress Website
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· Deactivating all redundant plugins (many plugins will significantly slow down your site)
· Assessing and optimising all pictures
· Using a CDN support
· Upgrading to a WordPress-specific high-performance hosting company, for example WP Engine or Flywheel(if your budget permits ).
All of These are well worth trying if you have not already.
WP Rocket Pricing
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Yesterday I blogged about Dan Savage giving a speech at the National High School Journalism Convention, where some students walked out after he said parts of the Bible are "bullshit." He kept going with his speech, and then said of the walkouts, "It's funny, as someone who is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible, how pansy-assed some people react when you push back."Despite a few leaving the convention, 2,800 students stayed to listen to the remainder of what he had to say, understanding that his speech wasn't an attack on Christianity, but hypocrisy.
"I didn't call anyone's religion bullshit. I did say that there is bullshit—"untrue words or ideas"—in the Bible. That is being spun as an attack on Christianity. Which is bullshhh… which is untrue. I was not attacking the faith in which I was raised. I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against—and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying "motivated by faith")—because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong. Yet the same people who make that claim choose to ignore what the Bible has to say about a great deal else. I did not attack Christianity. I attacked hypocrisy. My remarks can only be read as an attack on all Christians if you believe that all Christians are hypocrites. Which I don't believe."
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Last year for Christmas Chris got me a pair of shoes that I wanted. I wear those puppies all the time, so it's time to retire them.
I asked my Mom and Dad for some new sneakers (for Christmas), a grey pair. I'm hoping those grey shoes are under the tree, but just in case they aren't I purchased these Adidas for myself just last week. They're on sale for less than fifty! They're worth a look if you're looking for new tennis shoes. The retailer is also offering free shipping!
I have my eyes on this pair, just waiting for them to go on sale. I'll keep you updated in case you like them too!
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The SCRA committee announced at the recent AGM that the joint winners of this year's cruising log trophy would be Dunbar and Queensferry rowing clubs.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was postponing his scheduled meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in two weeks because of her lack of interest in his offer to purchase Greenland.
"Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time," Trump said in a post on Twitter.
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Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1943
Description: Weekly newspaper from Claude, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
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We got a lot done this weekend, including an awesome stream on Saturday. Today Oscar has been keeping me company while I write some posts on my laptop. He and Stan both like to curl up between my shins, but this was Oscar's shift.
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Badflower recently released their first full length studio album, OK, I'M SICK, and it is one to remember. The album flows effortlessly, with smooth melodies, strong vocals, and top-notch writing. With songs that vary from the angry, anti-Trump "Die", to the eerie, almost disturbing "Cry," there is not a single bad song on this album. Each song is a strong stand-alone, though to be fair, none of them have a particularly strong hook, making the listener sometimes have to struggle to remember how their favorite song goes. The album is incredibly well produced though, even if it can't quite capture the energy the band gives off live. If you're looking for a band that can be a gateway into the darker side of alternative, give Badflower a listen!
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Episode 8
By Patti G
Scene 1:
Zach pushes the stroller through the entrance of The Hayward Institute.
Coming here is always hard, but if Kendall is aware on any level of his presence, it
is worth it to him.
He approaches the reception desk, and Nurse Carson welcomes him.
She tells
Zach before he even has to ask, that there is no change in his wife's condition.
Zach is not surprised. Nurse Carson comments on how big Amelia has gotten. She
certainly looks just like her mother.
Zach heads down to Kendall's room and goes in. He takes Amelia out of her
stroller and bends over to give his wife a kiss and to let their daughter kiss
her also.
How could this be happening to their family again? Everything was going so
well in their lives. Their marriage was back on track, the boys were healthy,
and both Fusion and the casino were doing well. When Kendall told Zach she was
pregnant again, he was over the moon. Even more importantly Kendall was, as well. When
they found out from the ultrasound that the baby was a girl, they both were
overjoyed. Their family was now complete. Kendall's pregnancy was completely
normal. Unlike with Spike and Ian, she went completely to term. Then she went
into labor, and yes it went on for a long time, but Dr. Clater assured them that
this was very common. Suddenly, Kendall's monitors went off, and the doctors
told them they had to rush her into surgery and perform a C-section, because the baby
was in distress. After a quick scare, the doctors delivered a beautiful and healthy
baby girl and placed her in Zach's arms. Again, alarms started going off and the
team of doctors pushed Zach aside to focus all their attention on Kendall.
Something was terribly wrong, Kendall was not responsive!
Now it is three years later, and Kendall lies in a coma. She has never even
seen her beautiful daughter, Amelia (named after Zach's mother).
David quietly enters the room and places his hand on Zach's shoulder. Zach
turns to face David and asks him if there has been any change? Unfortunately,
David tells Zach no, but he is going to try a new drug therapy, and he has high
hopes that this might work. Zach knows David has worked hard trying to bring
Kendall back, but he has faced disappointment too many times to get his hopes up
too high.
Scene 2:
Opal strolls up to the front door and rings the bell. From inside, she hears a
voice calling out that she will be right there.
When the door opens, Opal sees a beautiful young woman standing in front of
her, dusted in baking flour and cradling a young child.
"Come on in," says Bianca. "I was so glad you called and said
you wanted to come by for a visit."
Opal follows Bianca back to the kitchen where she puts the baby down in the
playpen. "Gaby forgot to tell me until this morning that she needs three dozen
chocolate chip cookies for school tomorrow morning," Bianca tells Opal.
Opal sits down at the table and Bianca brings over the pot of coffee and two
mugs and sits down with her friend.
Opal asks Bianca if she has spoken to her mother recently. Bianca tells her
yes, just last night. Bianca says that Erica is very busy with some new project
that the networks are very interested in. Opal tells Bianca that is great news.
She is happy for her "gal pal" out there in LA, but she surely misses having her
here in Pine Valley. Bianca agrees she misses her mother very much too.
Opal nervously asks Bianca if there is any news on Kendall. Bianca tells her
that according to Zach, nothing has changed. Opal says that it must be very hard
for Bianca to not have her sister or mother around.
Bianca tells Opal that it is difficult and she misses them both, but with
Marissa, the kids, and The Miranda Center it helps keep her busy.
Opal mentions to Bianca that Miranda was at The Boutique the other day and
that they had a talk about Miranda's plans for the summer. Opal asks Bianca what
she would think about Miranda going to visit Erica for a while out in LA?
Bianca asks Opal if that's what Miranda wants to do? "Is that the real
reason that you came by today?"
Opal admits to Bianca that she promised Miranda that she would talk to her
about the visiting Erica idea. Bianca asks Opal why Miranda did not come
directly to her about the idea. Opal suggests that Miranda thought that she
(Bianca) might need some softening up before she would consider agreeing.
Bianca is somewhat disappointed that her daughter felt the need to have
someone intercede on her behalf. Opal tells Bianca not to feel so bad, that
girls of Miranda's age have a difficult time opening up to their mothers. Opal
holds back from Bianca the fact that Miranda finds Pine Valley boring and wants
to move out to LA with Erica permanently. Miranda might have Bianca's heart, but
she shares a need for excitement and drama just like Erica and Kendall.
Scene 3:
Emma opens the door to the penthouse and throws her purse on the table.
anyone home?" she calls out.
Ryan comes walking down the stairs and sees Emma lying on the sofa, her tablet
out, surfing the Web.
"Hey, Dad," Emma says. "What are you doing home so early?"
Ryan tells Emma he came home, because her school called him
at work informing him that she was not there today.
"I guess I'm busted," Emma says.
"Totally, young lady," says Ryan. "Do you want to tell me
where you were today that was more important than going to school?"
Emma tells Ryan that she took the bus out to Oak Haven to see her
"You did what!" says Ryan.
Emma asks why it is such a big deal. She hasn't seen her mother in so long
and really missed her. She knows that Ryan is more lenient about Emma
visiting Annie, but he still is not fond of her going there. Annie seems to stir up
Emma's wild side.
Ryan has to admit that Emma has been a bit of a handful in the past five
years. She is still basically a good kid, but she seems to have inherited too
much of Annie's game playing. Greenlee, who herself admits to have been a
spoiled child growing up, has warned Ryan not to give into Emma all the time.
Ryan, though, still feels guilty about the break-up of his and Annie's marriage
and the fact that Annie is still stuck at Oak Haven. He knows that, while Emma has
never said it, she holds him somewhat responsible.
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This article was written by freelancer Rebekah McVey
Regardless of what stage you're at in your career, rejection never feels good. You did everything you could to prepare for the interview but you just weren't what they were looking for. That email 'we regret to inform you…' can cause an emotional avalanche if you let it.
Let's face it, job rejections are a bit like those relationships that never materialised. It might never have been official, but the pain still feels real. You got your hopes up and maybe even fantasised about what your first day in your new job would entail. The very thought of it may have put a smile on your face.
A pang of disappointment strikes you when you realise your hard work didn't pay off this time. Sometimes this is expected, other times it takes you by surprise. Either way, it is never a pleasant feeling. It feels like every second you spent researching the company or practising interview questions was all a waste of time.
Like those unofficial relationships, you're back to square one again. People always say there are plenty more fish in the sea when a person breaks your heart and the same mentality applies for job hunting. There's always a lesson to be learned and it will make you even better when you seize the next opportunity.
1. Don't dwell on it
As Albus Dumbledore said, "it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." While this was said in a completely different context, the same meaning still applies. After receiving a job rejection it's easy to fixate over things you should or shouldn't have said in your interview but this won't get you anywhere.
Feeling disheartened after a job rejection is something 21 year old Jessica, a Business and PR graduate from Manchester, is all too familiar with. She had three interviews last year with the same organisation before being informed she hadn't got the job. Knowing she was graduating from Liverpool John Moores University, there was pressure on her to find some sort of employment.
"I just kind of bounced back from it, I thought there's no point moping around as I was under pressure to secure a job", she said. "I felt very upset for about a week or so, but after that I just took it as 'everything happens for a reason' and distracted myself by searching for similar jobs.
"Telling myself that it wasn't meant to be helped me to get over the rejection and stopped me from being angry at the organisation for their poor communication about the whole thing."
2. Don't give up
TMI Resourcing is a recruitment agency based in Manchester. A spokesperson for the organisation commented on the importance of persevering after a job rejection. They said: "Don't fear rejection, but learn from it. We are hard wired to focus on the negative in life, but rejection should not be taken personally and we shouldn't dwell on it.
"Feelings of inadequacy usually follow after rejection. Instead, ask the questions of why and look to solve them. For example, if you're a designer and your portfolio doesn't make you shine, use your spare time to work on it to showcase your skills in the next opportunity; and there will always be another opportunity."
On a first date with someone new, you wouldn't talk about every failed first date you'd ever experienced nor would you let it show that it brought you down. We don't often welcome rejection with open arms but sooner or later we are expected to pick ourselves up and move on.
3. See the opportunity
Not only are job rejections a learning experience but they can also be a blessing in disguise even if it doesn't feel like it at the time.
TMI Resourcing said: "Focus on the positive; you got so far in the process and your CV got through out of many applications. You may have had the chance to meet the CEO and have now experienced a high level interview."
In Jessica's case, the initial job rejection she received allowed her to land another job that she now really enjoys. Looking back on the experience she said: "I ended up in a great position which was more suited to me, I'd have never pushed for this job if it wasn't for the rejection to the other."
"I also learned a lot from the number of interviews I had – so now I have some tactics to take to my next one should I ever interview for another role."
4. Be the best version of yourself
Regardless of how many job rejections you receive, this doesn't mean you'll never find employment. Most of us can say we've taken job rejections to heart at some point but see it as an opportunity to grow and improve rather than take it personally.
TMI Resourcing said: "Push for feedback post-interview and address any issues. Whether this would be from the recruiter or the interviewers themselves, ask them to provide details, positive or negative, to show you are committed to self-development. When received, take it in with an open mind. You are not alone in this feeling; it's what you do about it that counts.
"Rejection is a part of everyday life, and although it's very disappointing and disheartening to fail to secure the position of your dreams, candidates should dust it off their shoulders and take as much action as possible on the feedback, in order to raise the likelihood of receiving an offer for another position."
When the next opportunity strikes, focus on being the best possible version of yourself. Apply any given feedback from the previous interview and don't give up on that end goal. Always remember, don't be bitter – get better.


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Ghosts, Ghouls, Goblins, In The Mix – [soundbyte g]
Sir, Madam, are you familiar with ' (1985) most iconic tune? If not, I urge you to first check out a minute or two of any of the playthroughs below. Got that theme memorized? Time for… Read More
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Ecco the #$@&%*! dolphin – [soundbyte e]
These games were hard as balls. And it made the atmospheric MegaDrive soundtracks all the more memorable. Take it with a grain of nostalgia salt.
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Days of Ruin – [soundbyte d]
Disclaimer: last-gen handheld soundtracks can sound grating to the uninitiated ear. Imagine you're on a battlefield or something. Enjoy! One of my favorite handheld games – it's still plugged into the old dusty DS for when the need arises –… Read More
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Psychedelic Transmorphing Alter Egos – [soundbyte a]
Alter Echo's got a rad soundtrack. It's even so rad, I fell in love with it and the prospect of, one fine day, experiencing this hidden PS2/Xbox gem from 2003.
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20XX – [soundbyte #]
For all you Mega Man fans out there, there's been something up and about for a few years now.
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We went and done the alphabet, soundtrack style. With a little luck, we'll manage to do the same for full-blown reviews before we celebrate our first anniversary! But first, let's do a recap episode. From 1988 to 2017…. Read More
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors – [soundbyte z]
Not named Zombies Ate My Neighbours in the UK, or the rest of Europe. Just Zombies, and the "censorship" didn't stop there. Even between the SNES and MegaDrive versions there were many differences – with SNES coming out… Read More
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Short and powerful, just the way I like my battle themes – [soundbyte y]
I sometimes imagine hearing this track in other games, just because it fits the INSTANT PUMP UP THE BATTLE RAGE bill so much. This is Milanor's fighting theme. This is Milanor. Milanor is a main character in the… Read More
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AceShowbiz - Carrie Underwood is to host the 2019 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards alongside Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire .
Carrie will take on lead presenting duties at the event at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on 13 November, with Dolly and Reba joining her as special guest hosts.
CMA chief executive officer Sarah Trahern revealed her organisation's 53rd annual prize-giving will celebrate the legacy of women in country music.
"It's an incredible honour to welcome Carrie, Reba and Dolly to the CMA Awards stage this year. In addition to awarding the year's best and brightest in the genre, The 53rd Annual CMA Awards will celebrate the legacy of women within Country Music, and we couldn't think of a more dynamic group of women to host the show," she said in a press release.
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The Griffin in Isleham fined thousands after food inspectors discover mouldy cheese, putrid cucumber and dead flies in kitchen
An Isleham pub has been fined thousands after a series of food safety breaches were found.
East Cambridgeshire District Council's inspectors found staff at The Griffin, Church Street, had left putrid cucumber, mouldy cheese and dead flies in the kitchen.
They also found limited pest-control measures and dirty appliances which were deemed unhygienic.
Landlords Michael and Gina Missing, who have owned the pub since 2008, pleaded guilty to seven offences at Cambridge Magistrates Court and have been ordered to pay £5,500.
They had previously been cautioned in 2013 and attended a half day training course at the council in 2017 to show them how to improve their practices and hygiene rating.
In May food inspectors rated the pub four out of five and said it had good food handling hygiene, good cleanliness and building condition, and generally satisfactory management of food safety.
Cllr Carol Sennitt, service delivery champion for environmental services, said: "When an inspector made a visit to the premises, it revealed that unfortunately there was no effective food safety management system and poor hygiene standards.
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All human activities are games. They are the games we play with others, ourselves, or the nature. Some games have clear defined rules, purposes, and scopes; others are open and evolving. Some are mandatory and inescapable; others are optional. Some are consequential, setting the paths/directions for future games; others are entertaining.
Which games we play and how we play them, one can argue, make what we are. Indeed, every society has its set of core games—e.g., in the forms of religion, military exercise, sports, schooling—-the games that instill values, build characters, forge identities, and spread influences. For an individual, it seems, the early games he plays often has a profound impact on the trajectory of his future life.
Education is one such game. In a modern society, few can afford staying out. Because of its ubiquity, education game serves at least two purposes. First, it helps to produce functional citizens, including civil participation and productivity. Second, it sorts people into different professions.
Despite their diverse characteristics, these games actually have much in common. Indeed, in the last four decades, economists have been trying to tease out their common cores—game theory—the mathematics of strategic interactions.


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Economics is Hard. Don't Let Bloggers Tell You Otherwise
Kartik Athreya ∗ Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
June 17, 2010
In this essay, I argue that neither non-eco nomist bloggers, nor economists who portray economics —especially macroeconomic policy— as a simple enterprise with clear conclusions, are likely to contibute any insight to discussion of economics and, as a result, should be ignored by an open-minded lay public.
The following is a letter to open-minded consumers of the economics blogosphere. In the wake of the recent financial crisis, bloggers seem unable to resist commentating routinely about economic events. It may always have been thus, but in recent times, the manifold dimensions of the financial crisis and associated recession have given fillip to something bigger than a cottage industry. Examples include Matt Yglesias, John Stossel, Robert Samuelson, and Robert Reich. In what follows I will argue that it is exceedingly unlikely that these authors have anything interesting to say about economic policy. This sounds mean-spirited, but it's not meant to be, and I'll explain why. Before I continue, here's who I am: The relevant fact is that I work as a rank-and-file PhD economist operating within a central banking system. I have contributed no earth-shaking ideas to Economics and work fundamentally as a worker bee chipping away with known tools at portions of larger problems. It is precisely from this low-level vantage point that I am totally puzzled by the willingness of many who fearlessly and breathlessly opine about economics, especially macro- economic policy. Deficits, short-term interest rate targets, sovereign debt are all chewed over with a level of self-assuredness that only someone who doesn't know more could. The list of those ex- hibiting this zest also includes, in addition to those mentioned above, some who might know better. They are the patron saints of the "Macroeconomic Policy is Easy: Only Idiots Don't Think So" movement: Paul Krugman and Brad Delong. Either of these men will assure their readers that it's all really very simple (and may even be found in Keynes' writings). Lastly, before you dismiss me as a right- or left-winger, I am not. I'm simply less comfortable with ex cathedra pronouncements and speculations than the people I have named. 1 The main problem is that economics, and certainly macro economics is not, by any reasonable measure, simple. Macroeconomics is most narrowly concerned with the tracing of individual ac- tions into aggregate outcomes, and most fatally attractive to bloggers: vice versa. What makes macroeconomics very complicated is that economic actors act. Firms think about how to make
∗ The views expressed are my own, and do not necessarily re present those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, or Federal Reserve System. 1 Somewhat strangely, in an earlier era Paul Krugman very e ff ectively took the same sort of "accidental theorist" to task, so what I'm saying is really a bit of a rehash of his arguments.
profits, households think about how to budget their r esources. And both sets of actors forecast. They must. One has to take a view on one's future income, health, and familial obligations to think about what to set aside for retirement, how much life insurance to buy, and so on. Of course, all parties may be terrible at forecasting, that's certainly a possibility, but that's not the issue. Even if one wanted to think of all economic actors as foolish and purposeless organisms making utterly random choices, one must accept that their decisions will still a ffect, and be affected by what others do. The finitude of resources ensures this "accounting" reality. Beyond this, some may recall that Economics 101 is usually insistent on reminding students of the Fallacy of Composition: what is true for some may not be true for all. Much of macroeconomics is dedicated precisely making sure that when we talk about the "economy", we don't fall afoul of this fallacy. It is therefore not surprising that the majority of the training of new PhDs in their macroeconomic coursework is giving them a way to come to grips with the feedback effects that are likely present. Some of this is nothing more than (valuable) exercises in book-keeping. So much of my 1st year homework involved writing down tedious definitions of internally consistent outcomes. Not analyzing them, just defining them, and so trying to convincing my instructors that I wasn't inadvertently describing something nonsensical, where resources were being allowed to "fly in (or out) through a window." In discussions of fiscal policy, such as those regarding deficits, for example, the discipline imposed by an insistence on doing the accounting correctly helps focus economists on the real issue (total spending, and the expected future path of spending), and also learn what might be peripheral (the deficit at any given moment). The punchline to all this is that when a professional research economist thinks or talks about social insurance, unemployment, taxes, budget deficits, or sovereign debt, among other things, they almost always have a very precisely articulated model that has been vetted repeatedly for internal coherence. Critically, it is one whose constituent assumptions and parts are visible to all present, and can be fought over. And what I certainly know is that to even begin to talk about the e ffects of unemployment, debt, deficits, or taxes, one has to think very hard about many, many things. Examples of this approach done right in the context of some of the topics mentioned above are recent papers by Robert Lucas of the University of Chicago, Jonathan Heathcote of the Minneapolis Fed, or Dirk Kreuger and his co-authors. Comparing, even momentarily, such careful work with its explicit, careful reasoning, its ever-mindful approach to the accounting for feedback eff ects, and its transparent reproducibility, with the sophomoric musings of auto-didact or non-didact bloggers or writers is instructive. For those who want to really know what the best that economics has to offer is, you must look here. And this will be hard. But why should it be otherwise? Why should anyone accept uncritically that Economics, or any field of human endeavor, for that matter, should be easy either to process or contribute to? To some extent, people don't. Would anyone tolerate the equivalent level of public discussion on cancer research? Most of us readily accept the proposition that Oncology requires training, and rarely give time over to non-medical-professionals' musings. Do we expect advances in cell-biology to be immediately accessible to anyone with even a college degree? Science journalists routinely cite speci fic studies that have appeared in specific journals. They generally do not engage in passing their own untrained speculations off as insights. But economic blogging and much journalism largely does not operate this way. Naifs write books, and sell many of them too. People as varied as Matt Ridley and William Greider make book-length statements about economics. I've never done that, and this is my job. This is, to say the very least, bizarre. The response of the untrained to the crisis has been even more startling. Many books have already been written about the nature of financial markets by non-economist writers, and I listen to Elizabeth Warren on the radio fearlessly speculating about the nature of credit market dysfunction, and so on. I find the comparison between the response of writers to the financial crisis and the silence
that followed two cataclysmic events in another sphere of human life telling. These are, of course, the Tsunami in East Asia, and the recent earthquake in Haiti. These two events collectively took the lives of approximately half a million people, and disrupted many more. Each of these events alone, and certainly when combined, had larger consequences for human well-being than a crisis whose most palpable e ffect has been to lower employment to a rate that, at worst, still employs fully 85% of the total workforce of most developed nations. However, neither of these events was met by (i) a widespread condemnation of seismology, the organized scientific endeavor most closely "responsible" for our understanding of these events or (ii) a flurry of auto-didacts rushing to offer their own diagnosis for what had happened, and advice for how to avoid the next big one. Everyone understands that seismology is probably hard enough that one probably has little useful to say without first getting a PhD in it. The key is that macroeconomics, which involves aggregating the actions of millions to generate out comes, where the constituents pieces are human beings, is probably every bit as hard. This is a message that would-be commentators just have to learn to accept. For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect. So far, I've claimed something a bit obnoxious-sounding: that writers who have not taken
a year of PhD coursework in a decent economics department (and passed their PhD qualifying
exams), cannot meaningfully advance the discussion on economic policy. Taken literally, I am almost certainly wrong. Some of them have great ideas, for sure. But this is irrelevant. The real issue is that there is extremely low likelihood that the speculations of the untrained, on a topic almost pathologically riddled by dyna mic considerations and feedback effects, will offer anything new. Moreover, there is a substantial likelihood that it will instead o ffer something incoherent or misleading. Note also that intelligence is not the issue. Many of those I am telling you not to listen to will more than successfully be able to match wits, in any generalized sense, with me. This is irrelevant. The question is: can they provide you, the reader, with an internally consistent analysis of a dynamic system subject to random shocks populated by thoughtful actors whose collective
actions must be rendered feasible? For many questions, I and my colleagues can, and for those that the profession cannot, the blogging crowd probably can't either. You might say, "you're telling us to leave everything to the experts, so why should I believe you are adequately policed?" This is a fair question, but as someone who has worked for a decade to publish in leading academic journals (with some, but hardly overwhelming, success), I now have the referee reports to prove that I live in a world where people are not falling over themselves to believe my assertions. The reports are often scathing, but usually very insightful, and have over the years pointed out all manner of incoherence in my work. The leading journals have rejection rates in the neighborhood of 80%, and I've had my share of them. In summary, what I'd like to convince the public that economics is far, far, more complicated than most commentators seem to recognize. Because if they did, they could not honestly write the way they now do. Everything "depends", and this is just the way it is. And learning what "it" depends on, exactly, takes enormous effort. Moreover, just below the surface of all the chatter that
appears in blogs and op-ed pages, there is a vibrant, highly competitive, and transparent scientific enterprise hard at work. At this point, the public remains largely unaware of this work. In part,
it is because few of the economists engaged in serious science spend any of their time connecting
to the outer world (Greg Mankiw and Steve Williamson are two counterexamples that essentially prove the rule), leaving that to a group almost defined by its willingness to make exaggerated claims about economics and overrepresent its ability to determine clear answers. How can this be changed? A precondition for the market delivering this is a recognition by the general public that they are simply being had by the bulk of the economic blogging crowd. I
hope to have alerted you to the giant disconnect that exists between the nuanced discussion that occurs between research economists and the noise (some of it from economists!) that one sees in the web or the op-ed pages of even the very best newspapers of the US. As a result, my hope is that the broader public will ask for a slightly higher bar when it comes to economics, rather than self-selecting into blogs that merely confirm half-baked views that might have been acquired from elsewhere. And I hope that non-economists who write about economics start routinely to do so in a way that references and discusses the premises that lead to particular conclusions about a given issue. Economics is full of this sort of "if-then" knowledge, which, if communicated well, could signi ficantly sharpen the public discussion. This is not asking a lot, it is asking just enough.


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