Cycling in Puglia. Helping Dreamers Do.
Cycling in Puglia has a lot to recommend it: the heel of Italy's boot is flat, as well as dry and sunny. If you're looking for a few more reasons to pedal through Puglia, then read on as this page has recommend cycling as well as the best time to go and cycling styles.
Puglia, or Apulia, is the heel of Italy's boot. It's one of the country's driest and sunniest regions and the south – the Salento peninsula – is also pretty flat, which makes it very appealing for cyclists. Certain sections of the peninsula are as narrow as 50km. Perhaps, due to its out-of-the-way location, Puglia is not, as yet, on the mainstream tourist radar and you'll find roads, both inland and along the coast, much quieter than some of Italy's more popular places. Two coastlines – Ionian in the southwest and Adriatic in the east – offer plenty of opportunities for a dip and you'll find small, locally-owned B&Bs in seaside towns such as Capitolo and Monopoli, Gallipoli and Lecce. Puglia will put you in mind of the UK's Cornish coast, although its olive groves, vineyards and orchards of almonds are always a dead giveaway that this is still, undeniably, Italy.
May and September are the best months to cycle in Puglia. Springtime is especially satisfying, with vast swathes of blood red poppies decorating the fields of the Valle d'Itria, contrasting dramatically with the whitewashed walls and conical trulli houses around. In autumn, the combination of wild walks along the sand dunes of the Adriatic and harvest time in the inland olive groves is really special.
The sea is toasty warm in September, and although October is starting to cool down it's still a great time to cycle on rural roads with hardly any traffic. November through to February can be a bit soggy, but fortune favours the brave, and if you don't mind packing waterproofs in panniers you might well be treated to some refreshing blue sky days as well as plenty of breezy blasts to help wet weather gear dry off. Summer is not the best time to cycle in Puglia as it's just too hot but, if you don't mind setting off early and spending afternoons supping coffee in shaded piazzas or lolling beneath beach umbrellas, then why not?
The easy going gradients and quiet coastal and country roads of Puglia are very straightforward to navigate under your own steam. A tailor made, self guided cycling tour bridges the gap between complete independence and expert guidance. You will have luggage transfers between specially chosen B&Bs, cycling route notes in English, and 24 hour assistance, if required. Not only does a self guided tour allow you to cycle at your own pace, it also enables you the freedom to explore throughout the year.
As this type of holiday is suitable for a minimum of two people, you won't be impacting on the peace and tranquillity that can sometimes be associated with larger groups. You'll also be able to seek out the secret spots for sustenance thanks to recommendations from accommodation hosts and from the trip notes that are compiled by local people. The best beaches, olive oil producers and most authentic local restaurants will all be at your disposal, and you'll have the freedom to cycle – or not – at your leisure.
Pedalling in Puglia is always relaxed with gentle rolling hills leading through wine growing hamlets and endless olive groves before descending towards the coast. Our recommended cycling route is self-guided and takes you north, along the Adriatic, from the Baroque cathedral town of Monopoli to the precariously placed fishing village of Polignano a Marebefore before heading inland to the walled castle city of Conversano. Cycling south from Conversano you'll approach Alberobello, famed for its pointed Apulian dry stone huts (trulli). Quiet country lanes, bordered by almonds, olives and grapes, meander east from Alberobello to the village of Pezze di Greco and the Blue Flag beaches of Capitolo, from where optional rides to the whitewashed hilltop city of Ostuni offer an alternative to a rest day by the sea. A wonderfully flat coastal route back to Monopoli takes you past the seaside village of Savelletri (seafood lunches are a must) from where 4-star accommodation allows time to contemplate cycling achievements as well as access to the traditional tavernas found within Monopoli's old town district. This is an easy-going week of self-guided point to point cycling in Puglia – luggage transfers, route notes and emergency back-up included - perfect for pootling at your own pace on average daily distances of 40kms.


The Villages is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sumter County, Florida, United States.
Harold Schwartz, a Michigan businessman, began selling land tracts via mail order in The Villages area in the 1960s. He and his business partner, Al Tarrson, were forced to close the mail-order aspect of the business due to a 1968 Federal law banning sales of real estate by mail order.Stuck with considerable portions of Florida land, in the early 1970s Schwartz and Tarrson began development of a mobile home park, Orange Blossom Gardens, in the northwestern corner of Lake County. By the early 1980s, the community had sold only 400 units. In an attempt to improve the business, Schwartz bought out Tarrson's interest and brought his son, H. Gary Morse, on board in 1983.Morse noted that the successful retirement communities (such as Del Webb's Sun City developments) offered numerous well-maintained amenities to the residents. They also had diverse and nearby commercial development. Morse began to significantly upgrade the development. Their sales improved in the mid-1980s. Schwartz began to buy large tracts of land in nearby Sumter and Marion counties for future expansion. In 1992, Morse officially changed the overall development name to The Villages. The development is still controlled in all major aspects by descendants of Schwartz and Morse.


Actually no. So it must be 50-75% then?
You might think so, but no. The answer is just 27% of online shoppers speak English.
Can you see now why you might want to target other languages?
So how do you translate your website into another language? You might use Google Translate http://translate.google.com/translate_tools or any of the translating plug-ins that are available. Of course, these are only machine translations, and your results may vary. Sometimes wildly.
A better course of action is to hire someone off of the freelancing sites who is fluent in English and your language of choice.
Once you've got your website translated, you can then offer products in that language, including your own. Naturally you'll want to get those translated as well.
Be sure to do research into the country you are targeting, just as if you were moving there. Find out what is important to them, what is offensive, who their celebrities are, what slang is commonly used, etc.
Find people you can trust, such as freelancers and even business partners native to that country or region.
And one more thing to consider: Keywords. Unfortunately, keywords don't necessarily translate well, and so you may want to get some help with this as well for your multi-languange search engine optimization efforts.


You can actually make a significant profit by recycling scrap metal that you no longer need. In fact, you can make a hobby or game out of gathering up old household items made of steel, stainless steel, brass, bronze and copper and taking them to the nearest scrap metal recycling company. The owners of these environmentally friendly enterprises usually pay well for both ferrous and non-ferrous metal items that are recyclable. This will enable you to enjoy impressive monetary profits while clearing the extra clutter away from your home. At the same time, you will be helping to promote the local and worldwide efforts today to clean up the environment by recycling all reusable or biodegradable items and materials. Even small pieces of recyclable metals add valuable weight and success to attempts to clean up, preserve and reuse the earth's natural resources whenever possible.
Although you may think you have no or very few metal products stored in your home that are recyclable, if you take a look around your attic, basement, garage or storage shed, you will most likely find some eligible objects. Hidden away in many garages are items like aluminium vehicle wheel rims, old car radiators, batteries and even an occasional vintage fender or bumper. Electric motors, copper cabling (PVC) and compressors are also good candidates for recycling due to their metal content. Old cars and car or truck parts pay well as scrap metal, and broken bicycles, scooters and motorcycles are also lucrative when sold as scrap metal. Many metal recycling companies also sell scrap metal products and parts to individuals who want them. For this reason, you can often locate items you have been searching for like older appliances, electronics and metal parts of myriad products, sold by the same owner of the metal recycling business who buys scrap metal from you.
• Iron and Aluminium Home Radiators. – Old and discarded home radiators that were long ago replaced by central heating systems are often found among the scrap metal at recycling sites today. Made of iron or aluminium, these vintage heating devices often have thick metal constructions and can be quite lucrative when sold as scrap metal. Sometimes these radiators have coils of copper wiring attached as well, along with sturdy iron or alloy piping.
• Rolls of Copper Cables and Wiring. – Large rolls of copper cabling or wiring used in all types of building and construction work are also frequently found at scrap metal recycling dumps and collection points. Often worn and somewhat discoloured, these rolls of metal cabling are useful as scrap metal for recycling purposes.
• Brass, Iron or Steel Balustrades and Handrails. – Discarded balustrades and handrails made of iron, brass or steel are good items for scrap metal recycling. Their metal content is usually heavy, sturdy and substantial, offering large amounts of reusable metals as well as some good biodegradable content.
When you buy and sell scrap metal pieces and items to the experts at Melbourne Metal Recycling in Braeside, Victoria, you will benefit from very fair prices and sizable profits. This experienced company team is staffed by metal recycling professionals who are very knowledgeable about the best products and metals or alloys for recycling. They can offer you superior advice and guidance concerning all aspects of recycling ferrous and non-ferrous metals, enabling you to gain expertise in this vital area of eco-friendly action for a better environment for everyone.


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Asia-Pacific COVID-19 IP office status updates
Spruson & Ferguson is closely monitoring the IP landscape and responding to the outbreak across the Asia-Pacific region. As a firm, we have implemented measures to ensure that we are able to continue to provide quality service without interruption during this time, while keeping the health and safety of our employees and communities a priority.
This page was last updated: 22 July 2021, 10.31 a.m. (+8 GMT)
IP office updates across the Asia-Pacific – Click below to expand
Until 31 March 2021, an extension of time of up to 3 months is available at no official fee (except for renewal fees) for patent, design, and trade mark rights, if the extension is required due to the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Applicant.
Where extensions longer than 3 months are required, or a request is filed after 31 March 2021, an extension of time may still be available and will be considered on a case by case basis as per the standard practice. Applicants should note that some time periods cannot be extended. Please contact us to check if an extension of time is possible for your application in Australia or New Zealand. A Fee waiver may also be requested, depending on circumstances, and will be assessed on a case by case basis.
Office hearings will not be held in person (unless rescheduled for later in the year). For the duration of the COVID-19 situation, there will only be hearings by video conference, telephone or written submissions
New fee exemption powers
As part of IP Australia's response to COVID-19, changes to the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Fee Exemptions) Regulations 2020, have been made. Following approval at the Executive Council meeting on 11 June 2020, these Regulations were registered 12 June 2020.
The Regulations amend the Plant Breeder's Rights Regulations 1994 and the Trade Marks Regulations 1995 to provide new exemption powers for IP Australia to exercise greater discretion and flexibility to exempt specified classes of persons from fees.
Status update of the National Intellectual Property Administration of People's Republic of China (CNIPA):
CNIPA has resumed operations as of 3 February 2020 with reduced staff numbers for trade marks but most staff (including examiners) for patents returning to work . They anticipate increasing the trade mark team to 80% in April.
Filing and payment matters are able to be handled electronically
Hearings appear to be delayed or moved to written proceedings (no policy announcement)
For court proceedings formal documents are still required to be notarized by a local notary public and sent to the Chinese embassy/consulate in the home country of the applicant
With effect from 4 September 2020, the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department (HK IPD) is providing the following services as usual:
Online search;
E-filing and submission of documents by post;
Publication of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Journal; and
Public Service Counter hours (open Monday to Friday from 0900 to 1745 hours); and
Enquiry Hotline (open Monday to Friday from 0900 to 1745 hours).
All deadlines falling between 2 December 2020 and 29 January 2021 have been deferred to 1 February 2021.
IPD's Public Service Counter will be open on:
Thursday 28 January 2021; and
From Monday 1 February 2021, every Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
Further to the Movement Control Order (MCO) since 18 March 2020, the Malaysia government has imposed Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) from 4 May 2020 to 9 June 2020 nationwide to allow all economics and social activities to be resumed but the standard operating procedure (SOP) set by the Health Ministry must be observed. The CMCO is now replaced by a recovery MCO, to run from June 10 to Aug 31.
The IP Office has previously advised the operations as below but we will update should there be any changes.
The IP Office will be open daily from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., starting from 9 June 2020. E-filing is still operating as usual for forms relating to patents and designs, and only new filings are allowed for trade marks.
All manual filings with priority deadlines due within the affected period are accepted although encouraged to file on the 10 June 2020 (in accordance with Art 4 (C) (3), the Paris Convention – "the first following working day" with regards to the extension of the Priority Date Claim).
All appeals, opposition and payment due during the affected period is extended to 16 June 2020.
International filing of trade marks through the Madrid system is deferred until end of CMCO.
Requests for certified true copies of documents will not be carried out during the movement control order.
The expiry date for the extension of patent renewal and industrial design will be extended to 16 June 2020.
Renewals of trade marks that expire from 27 December 2019 through 15 June 2020 will be extended to 16 June 2020.
Hearing sessions for trade marks, patents, and industrial designs that have been scheduled during the period of movement control orders have been postponed and will be rescheduled.
Submission and receipt of letters and physical documents will not take effect within the duration of the movement control order.
Nepal entered lock-down on 24 March 2020, the IP office is closed until 4 April 2020 and all deadlines will be extended to 5 April 2020.
The IP office in New Zealand is currently operating as usual but we will update should there be any changes.
Where an applicant cannot carry out an action within time due to the COVID-19 outbreak an extension of time may be available and will be considered on a case by case basis as per the current practice. Applicants should note that some time periods cannot be extended. Please contact us to check if an extension of time is possible for your application in New Zealand.
The Government of Pakistan decided to lift the lockdown in phases with effect from 9 May 2020. The three IP offices, the Patent Office, the Trade Marks Registry and the Copyright Office will re-open for public dealing with effect from Monday, 11 May 2020.
All cases in which deadline for filing documents/requests had expired during the lockdown period from 24 March 2020 to 9 May 2020 will be accepted on the opening date as filed within prescribed time in view of the Order passed by the High Court of Sindh in CP No. D-2176/2020 between PIPRA (the association of IP Practitioners in Pakistan) and IPO-Pakistan.
All hearings relating to trade mark and copyright matters scheduled from 25 March have been adjourned and these cases will be rescheduled in due course of time.
On 22 March 2020, the Intellectual Property Office of Papua New Guinea has established and announced the following measures in relation to its daily operations with clients:
Temporary shutdown of the Office for 14 days as of Tuesday 24 March 2020.
The Office will not accept lodgements over the counter at the Office. However, clients can continue to do lodgements by sending documents via email to the email address: IPOLodgements@ipa.gov.pg. (Please do not copy any other officers' email address whilst doing your lodgement via email.)
Temporary cease to Walk-in Client Appointments and Client Face to Face interactions
The Office will further advise after a period of 1 month from the date of this notice when this service will resume. As such, all client enquiries must be done via telephone on 308 4432 or via email to the registrar.ipopng@ipa.gov.pg.
Early cease to collection of Notices via pigeonholes
Although, collection of Notices via pigeonholes will cease as at 1st April 2020, the Office has began rolling out this process as of the date of this notice. As such, the Office is no longer issuing notices via pigeonholes.
Temporary cease to meetings, workshops, seminars and similar kind of events.
The office as and when required, will use email communications, telephone conferencing and where necessary, video conferencing to provide input and contribution to these meetings. The Office will not be hosting meetings within its premises during this time unless the Investment Promotion Authority considers of high priority and subject to approval it.
UPDATE: Scanned copies for filing purposes accepted
At present all Pacific Island Registries are open. Papua New Guinea; Fiji; Tonga; Tuvalu; and Vanuatu have agreed to accept scanned copies for filing purposes on the basis that originals will be provided once the pandemic is controlled.
E-filing services will continue to operate.
Please be advised that the National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) has been closed since 16th March 2020 due to the COVID19 preventive measures adopted by the Government of Sri Lanka including the curfew imposed in the Western Province.
However NIPO has adopted a procedure permitting the online payment of fees through Bank transfer in respect of urgent matters and to submit the relevant documentation by way of email to designated email address of the NIPO.
Electronic submission of documents and online payment of Official Fees can be made for the following for trademark, patent, and design applications:
Renewal & Annuity
Publication and Registration
Recordals of assignment, name and address change, etc.
Oppositions
The official receipts in respect of such payments would be issued upon the resumption of functions by the NIPO and allocation of the numbers in respect of any new applications would be made according to the order of receipt of payment into the NIPO Account. The original signed application and all the supporting documents will be submitted after the Registry re-opens.
The receiving office of the Department of Intellectual Property Thailand is temporarily closed from July 20, 2021 until further notice. However, document submission by e-filing and by post has been implemented. The application filing deadline extension is still unavailable.
Late-filing document submission during COVID-19 outbreak procedures are as follows:-
If the applicants cannot submit the late filing documents within deadlines, DIP requires the applicants to submit an extension request which consists of (1) a statement and a DIP form and (2) evidences before 90-day deadline of late filing. Such evidences can be:
a copy of passport
a copy of medical certificate
evidences showing applicants' residence area has been affected by the outbreak
evidences showing applicants' were disease infected patients, people in contact with the patients or people traveled back form disease infected countries
evidences showing applicants' were affected by COVID-19 outbreak
Please note that evidences must be submitted in English. Documents in other languages must be submitted with their English translation.
When DIP has considered that the evidences are sufficient, they will issue an allowance notification for the applicants to submit all their late filing documents within 90 days after the late filing deadlines. In summary, the applicants have 180 days in total from application filing dates to prepare all their late filing documents. Please note that DIP will accept the complete sets of documents only, even though other documents are available.
However, if the evidences have been considered to be insufficient, the applications will be returned after the deadline has passed and the applicant can file the appeal within 15 days after receiving the notification.
If the applicants fail to submit any documents within late filing deadlines, the applications will be returned after the deadline has passed and the applicants can file the appeal within 15 days after receiving the notification.
If the appeal has overcome the refusal, the late filing can be submitted within 60 days after receiving the notification.
Other jurisdictions
Bangladesh: Bangladeshi authorities have declared a nationwide public holiday March 26 to April 25th and further extended to May 30th. Government offices open from May 31st.
Cambodia: IP office closes from 11 – 19 April or until further notice.
Laos: IP office has been shutdown from 1 April till 19 April or until further notice.
Myanmar: IP office closes from 11 – 19 April or until further notice.
Solomon Islands: accepting instructions by email and scanned supporting documents until the end of June.
The following Pacific Island Registries are open and they have agreed to accept scanned copies for filing purposes on the basis that originals will be provided once the pandemic is controlled.
The IP offices listed in the following jurisdictions are operating as business as usual. Should there be any changes, we will update accordingly.
IP-led recovery: putting COVID-19 in the rear-view mirror
There has been a steady decline in innovation in Australia since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007. This is clear from the Australian Patent Office data which shows…
There has been a steady decline in innovation in Australia since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007. This…
A rush to register COVID-19 related trade marks
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous companies seeking to register COVID-19 related trade marks in relation to a wide range of goods and services in many countries throughout the world. In…
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous companies seeking to register COVID-19 related trade marks in relation to a wide…
Terminating and re-negotiating your contracts under COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially disrupted the operation of the Australian society and overseas. Supply chains are interrupted due to travel restrictions, the mode of business operation has changed overnight as a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially disrupted the operation of the Australian society and overseas. Supply chains are interrupted due to travel…
Electronic witnessing of documents under Covid-19
Further to our earlier article on the subject of electronic signatures, New South Wales is the first state in Australia to enable the electronic witnessing of documents in response…
Further to our earlier article on the subject of electronic signatures, New South Wales is the first state in…
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Whether you've got a car, truck, SUV, hybrid or commercial vehicle, it absolutely needs regular oil inspections and changes.
Motor oil is an essential part of the vehicle. It lubricates, it cools, it keeps the engine running for an extended period of time without any issues.
If you have a newer vehicle, one made in the last year or two, you'll actually need to inspect the oil more often, not less.
While we understand that you may have been told (by the person selling the car) that your vehicle won't need oil for 6 or 9 months, it's just not true. We sympathize but have found that most of today's newer vehicles are using oil and most likely will need some added between services.
Your vehicle's oil system may hold between 3.5 quarts for a newer, smaller car to 10 or 12 quarts for a non-commercial diesel truck.
Another big issue we're seeing is that some dealers and manufacturers are telling buyers that burning or using a quart of oil every 1,000 miles is normal.
But what if your car only holds 3.5 quarts? Well, by the time you get to the traditional 3,000-mile oil change time, if you don't check it and refill it, you're down to a half a quart of oil for your engine, and that's when the big issues start to come up.
If you don't have oil, then nothing's getting lubricated, and nothing's getting cooled. So, friction starts to happen in your engine, and you've got big problems.
If you're running that low on oil, the heat and friction are going to damage something in your engine.
We've seen cars where bearings without lubrication have actually welded themselves together. This is not only really dangerous but also an expensive, 100% preventable, repair.
Our best suggestion is to check your oil every time you stop to add gas.
We inspect and add oil (if needed) each time you bring your car in for servicing. And we certainly offer regular oil servicing and changing.
Schedule your service now, and be sure to ask how big your oil tank is, we'll tell ya.


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Cuba Commits to Industrial Development, despite US Blockade
Havana, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuba continues to work on its industrial development despite the negative impact of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States, said the Minister of Industry (Mindus), Alfredo Lopez.
According to Lopez, the different business groups in the sector are working on import substitution and on boosting exports, activities that are indispensable for advancing Cuba's economic and social progress.
The country continues to move despite the blockade that has hindered its development for almost six decades, said the Minister from the Havana Convention Center, reporting on his administration to the National Assembly of People's Power, prior to its third regular session in the 9th Legislature.
In coordination with the Ministry of Economy and Planning and other agencies has worked on import substitution by registering in the 2019 plan a total of 51 lines that generate savings of 99, 500, 000 dollars, says the report presented by Lopez.
Speaking of foreign sales, he said that for this year are planned exports of 93,736,000 dollars (the actual in late May is 29,661,000 dollars, representing 32 percent of the annual plan).
The head of Mindus said that - in general - the situation of maintenance in the industry is deficient and that it is insufficient execution of budgets with respect to that activity.
During the debates of the last three days, Cuban parliamentarians ratified that the national industry works on three fundamental guidelines: substituting imports, increasing exports and strengthening links between production centers and educational entities.
Speaking at the Industry, Construction and Energy Commission, legislators from several localities agreed on the importance of working on these axes because of their positive impact on the economy.
Eloy Alvarez, First Vice-Minister of Mindus, said that the main objective of these guidelines is to transform Cuban industry in a gradual and progressive manner.
This is the basis for Cuba's industrial development in the iron and steel-mechanical, chemical, packaging, recycling, electronic and automatic sectors, Álvarez added.
At another time, MPs insisted on the importance of maintenance, since it extends the useful life of machinery and equipment immersed in the process of development of the industry.
Since his arrival to the presidency in April 2018, the Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has ratified as priorities of the government the defense and the economic-social development of the country.
Diaz-Canel and other Cuban authorities participate this Thursday in accountability sessions of the Ministries of Tourism and Industries.
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"Do not give up the quality of life for your career! Do not give up being healthy! What's most important in life is being happy and healthy, make sure you are both of those things at all times!"
Annaplease tell us your talent/work rate per hour?
I have over five years of modelling experience. I am agency signed with two agencies at the moment. My rates vary.
Anna. Tell us ABOUT yourself.
My life long dream is to keep climbing the ladder of success in the modelling world. My career really took off when I moved to Japan, where I was recognised by independent designers and modelling agencies.
Our readers would love to get to know you more Anna. Tell us about yourself, what is unique about you?
My life long dream is to become as famous a model as I can. I would like to use my career as a model to spread a healthy lifestyle promotion and body positivity ideas. I struggled with confidence growing up, but modelling has made me an extremely confident and happy woman! I model all around the world, but especially in Asia and North America. I often incorporate nature and animals into my modelling work!
Anna, what are your passion and aspiration in life? How did you start as a Model?
I started as a model when I was 16 years old. Being in the professional modelling field has been a life long dream of mine. I am lucky enough to say it is my full-time job now, and hope to advance in the field by signing with new agencies and working with independent brands and artists.
Who is your inspiration in life Anna? How do you keep inspired?
My inspiration in life is Iskra Lawrence! She actually gave me some advice when I was first starting to model, and those words that encourage me to accept and love myself keep me going every day. She is so body positive and such a cheerful person, that having her as a role model and inspiration helps me to keep inspired while developing my skills related to modelling. On a personal level, I keep inspired by taking my own independent self-portraits, or collaborating on projects with photographer and make-up artist friends.
We all make mistakes Anna; we wish we could take back. Please tell us about a time being a Model, you wish you'd handled a situation differently with a colleague.
Honestly, one of the things I pride myself is not letting myself get shaken up when someone says something critical about myself. However, I haven't always had that skill. One time at a casting call, I let something another girl auditioning say about myself really negatively affect my confidence. Not just for the day, but for a long time after that. It made my ambition disappear, and I stopped working on myself and my career. I really regret all that lost time that I could've been working on myself.
Anna , when you're working with a large number of clients, it's tricky to deliver excellent service to them all. As a Model, how do you go about prioritising your clients' needs?
I think the biggest part about that is staying organised. In Japan, I had the largest number of job offers and demands from clients that I have ever had in my entire life, for any job I've ever done. Being in that situation, I was really forced to evolve my organisational and planning skills. It's what makes me able to stay on top of a large work demand that I have today.
Please tell us, Anna, about a time you had to be very strategic to meet all your top priorities as a Model?
It definitely had to be planning all the jobs I could take during my first few months with more than one agency while in Japan. It was definitely hard to make my own schedule for all the different travelling and hotels I would need!
Anna, please give us an example of a time when you were able to successfully persuade someone to see things your way at work.
I think the biggest thing isn't necessarily persuasion, but is collaboration. Having collaboration skills can make an even more beautiful idea than what originally existed.
Anna please tell us about your proudest professional accomplishment as a Model. There might be many, but there is always this proudest moment that you just want to share with everyone. What is it and why?
My proudest achievement was the first time I walked on the runway. I had always believed that I would never be tall enough or thin enough to walk on the runway, but through working on myself and developing my skills, I was hired to walk on the runway within a few months of working and living in Japan.
Anna, please give us an example of a time you were able to be creative with your work. What was exciting or difficult about it?
I've done a couple shoots with horses, because I've been riding since I was 5. I thought it was going to be really easy, considering my background. Surprisingly, it's really hard to look glamorous while trying to pose a horse at the same time!
Do not give up the quality of life for your career! Do not give up being healthy! What's most important in life is being happy and healthy, make sure you are both of those things at all times!
Yes! I love collaborating with new people and working on creative and fresh ideas. Please feel free to contact me for collaboration both paid and unpaid.


The trailer of Sridevi's eagerly awaited film starring Sajal Ali and Adnan Siddiqui was unveiled on Saturday. The trailer is intriguing and turns out to be somewhat of a suspense thriller. We know nothing about the plot except that it is somewhat based on a mother-daughter relationship and later to be followed by two strong male characters who also play a pivotal role in the film.
As the trailer unfolds, we see flashbacks of Sridevi and her family. Her relationship with her teenage daughter Arya, played by Sajal seems delicate and unstable. Eventually, an unfortunate incident separates the two to the point of no return. Is Arya dead or gone missing? The trailer doesn't reveal that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (plays DK), Akshaye Khanna and Adnan Siddiqui leave a powerful impact in the little that they are given to do in the trailer. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is wonderfully creepy and has all the best lines in the trailer. Sridevi as always delivers a stellar performance, with the right amount of vulnerability and dilemma in her act.


I'm sure the list above is not even complete.
OK, it's a joke that with one programming skill only you'll be employed for life, but it's a fun thought anyway. Off to the main topic of the post.
The compiler (program that creates programs) is an exe file called jsc.exe (JScriptCompiler) and is part of the .NET framework. Good news is that you can use it without installing any MS IDE (whatever Visual Studio is called these days), free of charge. Even better, maybe it's already there, on your machine. I searched my completely normal Windows XP machine that doesn't have any special MS tools and was able to find two copies of the compiler! You can search for "jsc.exe" and in case you don't already have it, you can read how to get it here.
Now open command prompt (Start - Run - "cmd" - OK) and type "jsc"+ENTER. You should see a list of help options for the compiler. Cool!
OK, lets create a simple application.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2005. All rights reserved.
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YES! An .exe was created! Without further ado, let's run it already!
That's so cool, the compiled program works!
Now, we're convinced that we have a good thing going here, so let's create a DLL, meaning create a library that other applications can use.
This creates hello.dll and we have a library!
Finally, let's create an app that leverages the new library we just created.
I didn't have time to experiment, but I'm pretty sure you can take tools such as jsmin or jslint and easily compile them into libraries that can be consumed from windows apps, or VBA scripts in Access, Powerpoint, etc. Imagine you're writing some documentation in Word, you select some JS code you just wrote and JSlint it. That would be nice.


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Cyclone Yaas: 201 relief camps set up, 596 people evacuated in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum
West Singhbhum (Jharkhand): As many as 201 relief camps have been set up and 596 people are evacuated in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand as part of relief efforts ahead of cyclone Yaas.
Additionally, one team, consisting of 24 jawans of the National Disaster Response Force, has been placed in Kamardungi, informed Ananya Mittal, District Collector, West Singhbhum.
"We have made 201 relief camps and evacuated 596 people. Evacuation is still underway. One NDRF team has been placed in Kumardungi. Cyclone Yaas will pass from Kumardungi, Manjhari, Chakradharpur and Chaibasa. Our all blocks are on red alert," Mittal said on Wednesday.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed that Cyclone Yaas would reach Jharkhand on Thursday morning
As of 5:30 am on Thursday, the deep depression lay centred over south Jharkhand and the neighbourhood, and is likely to move northwards and weaken gradually into a depression in the next six hours, the IMD added. (ANI)
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Will Crawford's Skills Bring Out the Best in Gamboa?
Terence Crawford is a fighter whose world class talent was recognized only recently. Yuriorkis Gamboa is a fighter whose world class talent was recognized years ago. Their styles are dissimilar, and their careers have followed vastly different paths. But for each man, beating the other is vital to proving that he is what everyone estimated him to be.
The ascendance of Terence Crawford (23-0 16 KOs) seemed to come out of nowhere. This was an illusion, of course; by the time he stepped into the ring last year as a late fill-in against Breidis Prescott, he'd already had a decorated amateur career and assembled a 19-0 record as a pro. But Crawford had the (business) misfortune of being from Omaha, Nebraska, which had sentenced him to a career spent fighting journeymen outside of boxing's major media centers. He was--though he should not have been--an unknown quantity to most fans.
His disassembling of Prescott changed all that. It became apparent to everyone that Crawford was not some fledgling prospect, nor some raw talent waiting to be honed for several more years; he was a polished, exacting, and lethal boxer who mixed a stylish defense with nonstop footwork and a determined commitment to attacking that separated him from more run-of-the-mill slick boxing types. He was, at the age of 25, a finished product. After beating Prescott, he went on to TKO Alejandro Sanabria, and then turn in decision wins over Andrey Klimov and Ricky Burns, confirming his rise to the top of the lightweight division. In the space of a single year, Crawford proved that he is probably the most skilled 135-pound fighter in the world. All he lacks is a win over a true A-level fighter to show that he belongs among boxing's elite.
Enter Yuriorkis Gamboa, the most frustrating fighter in the world. Not only for his opponents, but for his fans as well. Gamboa's ethereal athleticism, talent, punching power and speed have been salivated over for years; and yet, at age 32, all he has to show for it is a 23-0 record with a signature win over… Orlando Salido? Some of this is due to the fact that he had to defect from Cuba (after winning a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics), and didn't begin his official pro career until 2007. But more of it is due to the poor management of his career. Even five years ago, Gamboa had the ability to fight anyone in the world. Instead, promotional miscues and contract disputes slowed his career to a painfully slow pace, failing to produce a single matchup with a truly world class opponent who could force Gamboa to work hard and show everything that he has. Until now.
It's about time. Gamboa's last two fights, against Michael Farenas and Darleys Perez, proved to be lackluster affairs in which Gamboa went through the motions for decision victories that were much less pretty than they should have been, given the matchups. It is Gamboa's curse, and allure, to be so good that he grows bored in the ring easily. He rarely flashes his ability to throw crushing dozen-punch combinations unless he has to. When he is not challenged, he seems content to move and jab and throw the occasional right hand, winning rounds while looking completely average. It is only when he is challenged or hurt with a punch that he unleashes the offensive whirlwind that keeps boxing purists coming back to his fights time and again, even after one too many disappointments.
That makes this fight all the more interesting. Crawford is not only a fighter who can hit Gamboa--he is a fighter who can hit Gamboa and not get hit back. He is a fighter who can at least have a chance at controlling Gamboa with his jab, winning rounds and staying away from counterattacks with sterling footwork. He can, and probably will, use Gamboa's weaknesses against him in a way that no one has before. Yes, Gamboa has been hit before, and dropped before, mostly due to his own laziness. But he has never before been truly outboxed--set on his heels by someone whose skills were at least in the same ballpark as his own. Given Crawford's consistency and tendency towards intelligent and methodical fighting (and the fact that Crawford is the bigger man), this seems quite likely to happen.
And then what? Will Gamboa fold against a sharper and more technical boxer? Or will the frustrations inherent in fighting Crawford inspire Gamboa to--at last!--display every last bit of his talent in a single fight? His ability to encircle opponents in two wide steps; his blazing hand speed and tornado of combination punching that no man can withstand; his Roy Jones-esque ability to keep his hands down and still bowl over opponents with hooks. That is the Yuriorkis Gamboa that the world has been waiting to see. The only question is whether that Yuriorkis Gamboa is still lurking within, waiting to come out.
If it doesn't, Terence Crawford will get the win of his life.
The undercard pits two undefeated but untested international middleweights against one another. Matt Korobov (23-0) is a combination-punching Russian southpaw with wins over respectable gatekeepers like Derrick Findley and Grady Brewer. Jose Uzcategui has slightly flashier numbers (22-0, 18 KOs), but he's fought exclusively in Mexico and has yet to be tested. Uzcategui has long reach and a bomb of a right hand, but Korobov's experience makes it his fight to lose.


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How to Display Charts in SharePoint using Excel Web Access Web Part?
How to Show Excel Charts & Graphs in SharePoint Online using Excel Web Access Web Part?
Excel Web Access web part in SharePoint Online can be used to display charts. To display the Excel sheet with charts in SharePoint: Create an Excel sheet with Chart data, Select the chart and data area in your spreadsheet, give it a name. E.g. "ChartData"
Under "Business Data" category, Select "Excel Web Access" web part and Click on "Add"
Now, Edit web part properties of the Excel web access >> Browse and select the spreadsheet from your document library. Enter the "Named Item" you created in the spreadsheet. You can adjust the height and width of the web part according to your requirement.
Finally, the spreadsheet with charts will be displayed on your SharePoint page.
You should see the chart from the Excel workbook!


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The Architect is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Eidola, released on September 17, 2021 through Blue Swan Records and Rise Records. The album serves as a follow-up to their third studio album, To Speak, To Listen (2017), and is their first to not feature rhythm guitarist Brandon Bascom, who departed from the band in December 2017 and was replaced by Royal Coda guitarist Sergio Medina. It is also the band's first release since their record label Blue Swan Records partnered with Rise in February 2021. The album was produced by Ian Cooperstein and Kris Crummett with recording sessions taking place at Interlace Audio in Portland, Oregon.

The lead single, "Counterfeit Shrines", was released on June 29, 2021. The second and third singles, "Hidden Worship" and "Perennial Philosophy", were each released on August 13. The fourth and final single, "Mutual Fear", featuring Jon Mess of American post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance, was released on September 14. To promote the album, the band toured as support on Dance Gavin Dance's Afterburner US tour in September and October 2021, performed at the second inaugural SwanFest in Sacramento, California in April 2022, and will tour as support on Dance Gavin Dance's UK tour in January 2023.

Background
On June 2, 2017, Eidola released their third studio album, To Speak, To Listen, on Blue Swan Records, an independent record label owned by American musician and Dance Gavin Dance guitarist Will Swan. In support of the album, the band embarked on a North American tour with The Ongoing Concept and Save Us From The Archon, which took place from August 17 to September 19, 2017. On December 15, 2017, Eidola announced the headlining To Speak, To Listen Tour, with support from rock band Capstan and singer Andrés, which spanned from February 8 to March 3, 2018. On the same day, the group released an instrumental version of their third studio album, To Speak, To Listen. Prior to the group's To Speak, To Listen Tour, the band's original lead guitarist Brandon Bascom stepped down and was subsequently replaced by former Stolas and Royal Coda guitarist Sergio Medina.

After having supported American post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance's US co-headlining tour with CHON in 2017, Eidola performed at the band's inaugural SwanFest in Anaheim, California on March 30, 2019. In December 2019, it was confirmed that Eidola would be performing at the second annual SwanFest on April 25, 2020, in Sacramento. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SwanFest was postponed to April 2022 and the group withheld the announcement of their 2020 headlining tour.

Recording
On November 11, 2019, the band confirmed that their fourth studio album was completed and would be "ready in early 2020" with a tour announcement to follow in support of its release. In April 2020, Andrew Wells confirmed the title of their fourth record would be The Architect, but expressed uncertainty on the release date amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the music industry. The album was produced by Ian Cooperstein and Kris Crummett at Interlace Audio Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon. Recording sessions took place over the course of a year and concluded in early 2020, which was prolonged by Wells' involvement with Dance Gavin Dance. The album was postponed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the legality of their record contract with Blue Swan Records becoming partnered with Rise Records and BMG Rights Management.

Singles
On June 29, 2021, Eidola released the lead single "Counterfeit Shrines", accompanied with its music video and the album's announcement and pre-order bundles. On August 11, the group released the second and third singles, "Hidden Worship" and "Perennial Philosophy", to digital download and streaming services, alongside their respective music videos. On September 14, the fourth and final single, "Mutual Fear", featuring Jon Mess of Dance Gavin Dance, was released along with its music video.

Tour
To promote the album, Eidola toured as support on American post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance's Afterburner Tour from September 7 to October 20, 2021. Originally, the band was scheduled to tour on progressive metal band Intervals' US run in November, yet backed out due to frontman Andrew Wells needing emergency throat surgery. The band also performed at the second inaugural SwanFest on April 23, 2022 in Sacramento, California.

The band will embark on Dance Gavin Dance's headlining UK tour in September 2022 along with Caskets and Volumes.

Critical reception
The Architect has received mostly positive acclaim from music critics. The album was praised for the band's use of progressive rock and metal elements within their post-hardcore sound. In a review from Sputnik Music, the album was rated a 3.5/5 stars with the reviewer stating that "the album is cut too much from the same cloth as To Speak, to Listen, and while many fans of the genre will eat this up, it does nothing to push the limits and stays well-entrenched in familiarity." Helana Michelle of Glasse Factory praised the album for its "melancholic nature [that] shares a real deep and personal set of experiences shared by Andrew himself."

Track listing

Credits and personnel
Eidola
 Andrew Wells – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano, string arrangements, composer
 Sergio Medina – lead guitar
 Matthew Dommer – rhythm guitar, unclean vocals
 James Johnson – bass guitar
 Matthew Hansen – drums, percussion

Production
 Kris Crummett – producer, engineer
 Ian Cooperstein – producer
 Richard Orozoco – recording engineer
 Gigi Zimmer – recording engineer

Additional personnel
 Jon Mess – guest vocals (on "Mutual Fear")
 Chantelle Wells – guest vocals

References

2021 albums
Blue Swan Records albums
Rise Records albums
Albums produced by Kris Crummett


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Radiant Flux Review—Radiant Frustration
I'm not much of a fan of modern day shooting games. I much prefer the older ones found on the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64. I still play many of them today. Although many modern games try to capture the look of the old classic shooters, many of them miss the mechanics of them. Unfortunately, Radiant Flux from TACS Games is one of those modern attempts that goes somewhat awry. What's worse, it has an added layer of eyestrain.
Radiant Flux is a combination of arena shooter (like, say, Robotron: 2084 or Omega Race), where you must destroy a wave of enemies on the screen, and a scrolling shooter. If that combination doesn't sound possible, well, it's mostly an arena shooter, where the background scrolls slightly. The enemies just pop from nowhere into the playing field; they don't enter from the sides. So other than having to watch out for the terrain, it really feels more like an arena shooter.
When the game looks like this, it's playable, if drab, even on the OLED screen of the Vita.
Besides just your normal shots, you have two special weapons: a smartbomb of sorts, which slowly destroys about everything on the screen like an exploding donut, and a time-fused bomb which goes off a few seconds after being dropped and sends shots in all directions. There are also quite a lot of levels, broken up into waves.
So far, so good, right? Well, no, unfortunately, it has a lot of problems in practice. Firstly, your ship can only shoot the way it's moving, which is done by pressing the D-pad in the way you want to move it. So in order to shoot enemies behind you, you have to move your ship a good distance away from them, then turn around and shoot while moving toward them. Besides this being annoying in and of itself, it complicates things greatly when the terrain narrows.
While I can remember some old games that used this method of shooting in the direction you are moving, like Yars' Revenge, mostly they allowed you to move and shoot in different directions. Only did the home game versions have to do this, because of the limited controls of the time, usually only one stick and one (or two) buttons. The Vita is not so limited (nor are touchscreen devices), so it seems odd to design a game that way. Even just being able to use the stick over the D-pad would help. Maybe it's designed this way to be more of a challenge, but it comes at the expense of playability.
When it looks like this, it's painful. Not figuratively, but literally.
What's worse, on top of this, there is an effect that blurs the screen from time to time. I think it's supposed to be like a prism effect, splitting the light of objects into different colors, but the net result is that it makes things very blurry. It literally has the same feeling of putting on glasses with a vastly different prescription from that of your eyes. It makes your eyes water and burn.
Worse, at times it oscillates between the two states fairly quickly, which induces a headache. Not just me, it happened to Jasper as well, who has much younger eyes than I do. It lasts a while after you play, too; I am rubbing my eyes as I write this.
Other than that effect, the graphics are quite retro, like those of his previous game, Super Skull Smash GO!, somewhere between a ColecoVision and Commodore 64. While I love those systems, the palettes for them were somewhat flat and dull. Yet if you look at arcade games of the time, they were bright and colorful. People wanted to make games like that on home hardware, but they just couldn't, yet. The dullness found in the palette is also in the design of the ships. They are very simple shapes with no detail.
This is when it gets hard. No pun intended.
Clearly he put some effort into it, and while I think designers should make the games they want to make, sometimes what a game designer thinks is a good idea simply isn't. Radiant Flux is full of those flawed ideas. It's also literally painful to play. I've gotten sore thumbs from games before, but this is the first case of sore eyes I've gotten from a game.
If the controls were changed (to at least support the analog stick), the graphics made more colorful, and the eyestrain effect removed (at least as an option), it would be a much better game. The basic idea behind it is good. It just needed more player feedback, I think, which is a peril of many self-developed games. But as it is now, I simply cannot recommend it to anyone.
Posted by JeremyR on Monday, April 22, 2013 at 5:26 am
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Anticipated FOMC Policy, Inflation and Credibility
By Alexander L. Wolman
Following through on its September 2020 plan, the FOMC waited to raise interest rates until March 2022, when inflation was high and unemployment was below its perceived long-run level. However, by early fall 2021, markets were predicting a rate increase, and policymakers were signaling an increase in their Summary of Economic Projections. In contrast to the 1980s and 1990s, when the Fed fought inflation scares even as actual inflation trended down, long-term inflation expectations have been relatively stable even as actual inflation has risen far above target. This stability has likely been facilitated by the SEP reinforcing the Fed's commitment to its 2 percent inflation target.
The Federal Open Market Committee began raising short-term interest rates in March. By then, unemployment had returned to its pre-COVID levels, and PCE inflation had been well above 2 percent for almost a year.
In retrospect, the FOMC stuck to its plan (announced in September 2020) of waiting to raise interest rates "until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee's assessments of maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time." It did not invoke the "escape clause" which stated that "The Committee would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate if risks emerge that could impede the attainment of the Committee's goals."
As I discussed in a previous article examining the FOMC's shift in fed funds rate target language, this plan represented a significant departure from the typical policy that the Fed had followed in the stable-inflation period from 1995 to 2019. However, although the FOMC did not raise short-term rates until this past March, markets began to anticipate an increase in rates well in advance, around the same time that the FOMC's own Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) began to reflect anticipated future rate increases.
In this article, I first provide measures of the market's expectations and FOMC participants' projections for the timing of future rate increases. I then show how FOMC participants' projections evolved together with their expectations for future inflation. Finally, I relate FOMC policy to the relative stability of long-term inflation expectations.
The Market's Expectations for Future Policy
Figure 1 displays daily interest rates on U.S. Treasury securities at maturities of one month, three months, six months, one year and two years for the period from March 2021 to August 2022. If we interpret the term structure of interest rates as determined by the pure expectations hypothesis — a simplifying assumption which is not innocuous but nonetheless a useful first pass — then current yields on these securities reflect only market participants' expectations of future yields. In that case, Figure 1 provides information about the evolution of the market's expectations for liftoff and the path of future short rates more generally. The vertical lines indicate the approximate dates at which each interest rate first rose above the range at which it had settled in 2020:
For the two-year rate, this was June 2021.
For the one-year rate, it was September 2021.
For the six-month, three-month and one-month rates, it was December 2021, January 2022 and March 2022, respectively.
Although the FOMC first raised its fed funds rate target in March 2022, markets began to see liftoff on the horizon in the summer of 2021. From then on, markets gradually pulled forward the date of expected liftoff, and by January 2022 markets were accurately forecasting when liftoff would occur.
While the monetary policy instrument is a short-term interest rate, for the relatively short maturities displayed in Figure 1, the expected path of that policy instrument is an important determinant of longer-term rates. As such, a lesson from Figure 1 is that monetary policy implicitly began to tighten in the summer of 2021, although markets revised up their expectations of the speed of "actual" tightening well into the spring of 2022.
FOMC Participants' Projected Policy
Whereas Figure 1 provides rough information about markets' expectations of the path of policy rates, Figure 2 provides direct information about what FOMC participants themselves projected as the appropriate path for future policy.
The figure plots data from each of the FOMC's eight SEPs from September 2020 to June 2022. For each projection date, the figure displays the median participant's fed funds rate projection for end-of-year 2022 (blue line), 2023 (purple line) and 2024 (green line). Note that the SEP typically contains projections two years out, so not all years are available for all projection dates.
Reassuringly, policymakers' projections in Figure 2 tell a similar story to market expectations in Figure 1: Starting in June 2021, the median projection showed rates beginning to increase sometime in 2023. And each subsequent meeting saw a higher median projection for the year-end funds rate. Thus, if we use a broad notion of policy that encompasses policymakers' intentions for the near-term path of the policy rate, policy began tightening in the summer of 2021, with further tightening at each subsequent meeting to June 2022.
Note however that the projected rate path implied by the median projection flattened then inverted in March and June of 2022. That is, the median projection in June 2022 showed a higher funds rate at end of 2023 than at end of 2024. For the most part, the same qualitative features appear as in Figure 1, under our assumption that Figure 1 mainly reflects market expectations.
Figure 3 provides a different perspective on the same SEP data as Figure 2: The x-axis is now the year being forecasted, and the lines represent different dates of publication. I note three dates in particular:
September 2020, when the median funds rate projection was flat over the forecast horizon
December 2021, when the median projection showed a steady increase
June 2022 (the most recent SEP), which shows a steep increase in 2022 (much of which has already occurred), a small further increase in 2023 and a reduction in the funds rate target in 2024
Policy Projections and Expected Inflation
Figures 1-3 focus on interest rates and interest rate projections in isolation. But the FOMC's interest rate policy depends on its perceptions about the economy, and the behavior of inflation took center stage during this period. Figure 4 is the inflation analogue to Figure 2: The x-axis is the date of the projection, and each line represents a different year. The figure shows a large increase in the projected 2021 inflation rate over the course of 2021 and a large increase in the projected 2022 inflation rate over the first half of 2022.
Figure 5 displays the same data arranged by date of projection instead of by year. As inflation rose in 2021, the median projection showed a rapid decrease in inflation, though from the December 2021 SEP to the March 2022 SEP, the date of that decrease in inflation was pushed out from 2022 to 2023. With the most recent projection from June, the decrease in inflation anticipated to occur next year is almost identical to the decrease that was projected to occur this year when the December 2021 SEP was published.
Looking at the fed funds and inflation projections together, different interpretations are possible. A pessimist might say that the FOMC's response to inflation has not been strong enough: Actual inflation was above 5 percent in 2021, and projected inflation is above 5 percent for 2022, yet the funds rate is projected to be less than 3.5 percent at the end of 2022. One popular prescription for monetary policy — the Taylor principle — states that the interest rate target should move more than one-for-one with inflation, which is not the case for those projections.
On the other hand, the longer-run properties of the projection look quite different: Inflation is projected to be less than 3 percent in 2023 and 2024, with a funds rate above 3.5 percent. Thus, relative to pre-COVID conditions, the policy rate is ultimately projected to move more than one-for-one with inflation.
The Dog That Hasn't Barked: High Inflation but No Inflation Scare
While one can give diverse interpretations to the evolution of the FOMC's median SEP projections for inflation and policy, markets and survey respondents seem to have weighed in on the optimistic side: They do expect FOMC policy to be consistent with low inflation over the long run. Figure 6 displays several survey measures of medium-run and long-run expected inflation, as well the forward breakeven inflation rate from the TIPS market.
Most of the series increased markedly in 2021, but they generally remained in their post-2013 ranges and have come down to well within those ranges in recent months. One exception is the Philadelphia Fed's Livingston survey for 10-year CPI expectation: At 2.5 percent, it's as high as it's been since 2013. However, this measure was also at 2.5 percent from December 2001 through 2008, not a period of significant inflation concerns.
The relative stability of long-term inflation expectations is almost certainly related to the Fed's stated 2 percent inflation target: The SEP has repeatedly reinforced every FOMC member's intention to achieve that target over the long run and to make substantial progress toward it over the next two years. Thought it's not pictured in Figures 4 and 5, FOMC participants' projections also include a long-run value for the inflation rate, and all FOMC participants' long-run projections for PCE inflation are 2 percent in every SEP. Anything else would be inconsistent with the FOMC's longer-run goals and monetary policy statement (PDF) that "The inflation rate over the longer run is primarily determined by monetary policy."
An Unusual Situation, or Is It?
This is an unusual situation for the U.S. economy. On one hand, actual inflation has been far above what the FOMC would have wanted — and what it predicted — for a year and a half. Many commentators described the Fed as being behind the curve on responding to high inflation.
On the other hand, there has been nothing that could be called an inflation scare, either in long-term nominal bond rates or the expectations measures in Figure 6. This is the opposite of the kind of situation the Fed encountered when it was establishing credibility for low inflation in the 1980s and 1990s. In that period, actual inflation was generally on a downward trend and stabilized around 2 percent starting in 1993. But it took several more years before long-term expectations also stabilized, and there were occasional spikes in bond rates that signaled doubts about the Fed's long-run credibility for low inflation.
While the current situation is unusual from the perspective of recent history, it fits easily into a standard modeling approach used by applied monetary economists. That approach maintains an assumption of perfect credibility for monetary policy and studies the behavior of the economy when there are fluctuations around a fixed inflation target. Depending on the nature of the shocks hitting the economy (which include shocks caused by monetary policy), there can be arbitrarily large and persistent deviations of inflation from target while long-term credibility is maintained.
One might respond that the Taylor principle is a requirement for macroeconomic stability in many of those models. However, it is not even clear that the short-run relationship described above violates the Taylor principle. If the low interest rates in 2021 represented temporary shocks rather than a fundamental shift in the Fed's implicit interest rate rule, then policy could have still been consistent with the Taylor principle.
In September 2020, the FOMC announced that it would likely wait to raise interest rates from the effective lower bound until inflation was at or above 2 percent and the economy had returned to a situation of maximum employment. Actual policy did follow this plan, and inflation has been very high by the standards of recent decades since the spring of 2021.
This article has shown that "effective" policy tightening began well before the actual funds rate liftoff in March 2022, where effective tightening refers to financial market expectations of policy over the next two years. In turn, market expectations reflected policymakers' own intentions, as measured by the FOMC's SEP. We related the FOMC's evolving interest rate projections to its evolving inflation projections. As actual inflation continued to surprise on the upside, in 2022 the FOMC has thus far raised its funds rate target well above what it had been projecting in 2021: According to Figure 3, in the 15 months from March 2021 to June 2022, the FOMC median interest rate projections have shifted up by approximately 350 basis points.
One can argue about whether the FOMC's response to inflation has been strong enough, but financial markets and surveys suggest that the Fed retains credibility for low inflation in the long run. We attribute this credibility in large part to the Fed's 2 percent inflation target and the fact that each quarterly SEP reinforces FOMC participants' intentions to return inflation to target.
The current situation is unusual in light of recent history but fits well into standard modeling frameworks with full credibility, where long-run stability of inflation can be consistent with large and persistent deviations of inflation from target. In reality, unlike in models, long-run credibility cannot simply be assumed. Thus far, the Fed's actions seem to have been consistent with maintaining credibility.
Alexander L. Wolman is a vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
To cite this Economic Brief, please use the following format: Wolman, Alexander L. (September 2022) "Anticipated FOMC Policy, Inflation and Credibility." Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, No. 22-37.
This article may be photocopied or reprinted in its entirety. Please credit the author, source, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and include the italicized statement below.
Views expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond or the Federal Reserve System.


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Celebrating Seniors - Anne Murray Turns 70
Enjoy 3 of Anne Murray's best vintage live music videos - Snowbird, You Needed Me, and Danny's Song. Canadian singer and baby boomer Anne Murray was born June 20, 1945 in Springhill, Nova Scotia.
(Anne Murray 1970s Photo: Fraser MacPherson & Anne Murray | Wikimedia CC 2.0)
After graduating from the University of New Brunswick in 1966, Anne Murray taught physical education at a high school and appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) musical variety television show, Singalong Jubilee.
It was on Singalong Jubilee that Anne would meet two major influences in her life - singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan and the show's host, singer Bill Langstroth, who was also a CBC television producer and 15 years Anne's senior.
Anne recorded her first album, What About Me which became a Canadian hit upon release in 1968. That same year, Anne and Bill Langstroth (a married father of two young children) began a secret affair that would continue for years. Anne's second album, This Way is My Way, was released the next year and included the single Snowbird (written by Gene MacLellan) which became a #1 hit in Canada and reached #8 in the U.S.; she was the first Canadian artist to earn a Gold record in the U.S. Below, Anne Murray performs Snowbird live.
Anne Murray would go on to achieve eight #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits on the Adult Contemporary charts during the 1970's and 80's, including Danny's Song (1972), You Won't See Me (1974), You Needed Me (1978); I Just Fall in Love Again (1979); Could I have This Dance (1980), and many more.
Below, Anne Murray sings Danny's Song.
Murray's albums have sold over 54 million copies and she's the proud holder of buckets of Canadian and U.S. music's highest awards - 4 Grammy's, 24 Junos, 3 AMA's, 3 CMA's, 3 CCMAA's - 4 Hall of Fame inductions (Juno, Canadian Country Music, Canadian Songwriters, and Canadian Broadcast), with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in LA and Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. Below, Anne Murray performing You Needed Me live on The Johnny Cash Show in 1979.
In 1975 Anne Murray married the now-divorced Bill Langstroth. Their son William was born in 1976, followed by daughter Dawn in 1979. Dawn is also a singer-songwriter and has performed with Anne including benefit concerts for anorexia nervosa, which Dawn has suffered from. As a young mom, Anne started recording different types of songs and released a Juno award (1979) winning children's album in 1977 which included a popular single by the same name, There's A Hippo in My Tub. Below, Anne Murray singing There's A Hippo in My Tub.
Over the years since then, Anne Murray has appeared on numerous television specials and released new albums and singles, a perennial baby boomer fan favourite. In her 50+ years, she and Bill Langstroth divorced (1998), but would remain friends until his death in 2013.
Anne Murray has been a long-time golf lover, and in 2003 made history by becoming the first woman to score a hole-in-one on the 17th hole at the Kalauyat Golf Club (a par 3). Golf For Women magazine named her the world's best female celebrity golfer in 2007, and that same year Canada Post recognized her with a limited edition Anne Murray stamp.
Her 2007 album Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, which included re-recordings of her hit tunes with other top female artists, hit #2 on the Canadian pop album charts, and debuted at #8 on Billboard's Country Albums chart in 2008. In a 2007 interview with Michael Posner (globeandmail.com), Anne outlined the exercise regimen that kept her fit and active as she neared her senior years: swimming laps daily, yoga classes and visits from her personal trainer. Anne also recounted the sense of loss she still felt upon the death of her former manager of 25 years, Leonard Rambeau, from colon cancer at age 49 in 1995.
Anne Murray retired early from singing before actually becoming an official senior citizen, announcing that her 2008 Coast-to-Coast - One Last Time tour would be her final major tour. Although she did mentor contestants on the now-defunct Canadian Idol tv show later that year, Anne Murray has not performed in public or released a new album since 2008.
Anne Murray finished writing her 2009 autobiography All of Me and did a short book-signing tour to promote it's release. As many seniors in retirement do, she continues to keep fit by indulging her love of the game of golf. Anne turned her love of golfing and desire to cultivate a retirement interest in supporting a charity, the annual Anne Murray Charity Golf Classic in 2009, with proceeds going to Colon Cancer Canada to fund research and diagnostic equipment.
In an 2013 morning show interview with Global News, Anne - looking the same as she has for the past 20 years - said that things were winding down in her life and she doesn't miss her singing career at all; she only sings Happy Birthday occasionally to friends. She urged viewers to get tested for colon cancer, saying:
"What amazes me is the number of people that are scared to be tested...I've been tested 4 times, it's nothing, it's a piece of cake...so please, get tested."
Happy 70th Birthday, Anne Murray!
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2022 VW Tiguan Allspace Teaser Previews A Refreshed Seven-Seat SUV
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All will be revealed on May 12.
Technically speaking, we've already seen the 2022 Volkswagen Tiguan. The refreshed SUV showed its updated face last summer, featuring a few styling cues borrowed from the current-generation Golf. The interior received quite a makeover as well, but that was all for the smaller five-passenger model that isn't offered in the States. We only get the long version known elsewhere as either the Tiguan L or Tiguan Allspace, and its debut is nigh.
Not that we expect to see anything significantly different. In its new Tiguan Allspace teaser we see the same taillights, body lines, and rear gate from the shorter model. The profile is obviously a bit different, as the Allspace is stretched nearly nine inches to accommodate an optional third row of seats. The teaser tells us the Allspace offers up to 67.8 cubic feet of cargo space, and it also flat-out states the Tiguan Allspace "received the same treatment" as the smaller version that debuted last year. So yeah, we aren't expecting any surprises from what we've already seen.
That means an updated interior with a cool new multi-function steering wheel and revised center stack are in the cards. The updated infotainment system is available with either an 8-inch or 10-inch touchscreen, and it will run VW's updated MIB3 system with a variety of online-based services available. For the driver, the refreshed Tiguan gains new control and assist systems as part of a new Travel Assist safety suite. Features like lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control are part of that, though its availability as standard or optional equipment for the Allspace remains to be seen.
VW will hold a global launch of the updated 2022 Tiguan Allspace on May 12, thus completing the debut of the entire Tiguan line. Production of the bigger SUV will take place primarily in Mexico, supplying markets in North America, South America, and Europe. The Tiguan L version for the Chinese market will be built in Shanghai.
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Toy Story 3 Beats Sandler and Cruise at Weekend Box Office
Toy Story 3 has topped the weekend box office for the second week in row, beating out the debuts of Adam Sandler's Grown Ups and Tom Cruise's much-hyped action thriller Knight and Day.
Toy Story 3 (Pixar)
We feel kind of bad for the studios that paid mega millions to land Hollywood heavyweights like Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler for their blockbuster hopefuls, only to see them smashed aside by a bunch of animated toys.
Then again, we're kind of amused to imagine Tom Cruise squirming after the worst box office debut for one of his action movies in 20 years. Let's face it Mr. Cruise, you're just not Top Gun at the box office anymore. All those weird couch-jumping antics and freakish Scientology spewing episodes aren't making things any easier.
Toy Story 3 laughed its way into first place at the weekend box office again with $59 in ticket sales by Sunday, raking in $226.6 domestically so far. The Adam Sandler starring comedy Grown Ups placed at second with a decent take of $41 million. Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, crawled into a rather dismal third place with only $27.8 million since the film's early Wednesday premiere.
Rounding out the top five for the weekend box office were The Karate Kid at $20.5 million so far and The A-Team with $6 million.
As for next week's box office roundup, you can pretty much bet even Toy Story 3 is not going to stand a chance against the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse for the July 4 weekend.
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Posted on June 27, 2010 Author Cameron BrodyCategories MoviesTags adam sandler, Cameron Diaz, eclipse premiere, grown ups box office, knight and day box office, tom cruise, toy story 3 box office, twilight saga eclipse, weekend box office results, weekend box office ticket sales3 Comments on Toy Story 3 Beats Sandler and Cruise at Weekend Box Office
Toy Story 3 Weekend Box Office Win: Jonah Hex Fails
Toy Story 3 made its Pixar creators very happy in the weekend box office with the studio's biggest opening weekend ever. Toy Story 3 beat out The Karate Kid and The A-Team 2010 remakes to land the top spot. As for Warner Brothers' much hyped Jonah Hex, the Megan Fox and Josh Brolin starring film came in a pitiful 8th place for its opening weekend.
Pixar's latest animated offering was expected to rake in huge numbers for its weekend box office opening and it did not dissapoint. Toy Story 3 earned $109 million, coming in second only to Shrek the Third for the record of best opening weekend for an animated movie. The Karate Kid 2010 remake placed second with only a paltry $29 million in comparison.
In a rather nasty blow to Warner Bros., the studio's adaption of DC Comics' Jonah Hex came in way down the list at 8th place after receiving a slew of negative criticism in pre-release. The film only earned $5.1 million for its weekend box office opening.
Weekend Box Office Top Five
1. Toy Story 3 ($109 million)
2. The Karate Kid ($29 million)
3. The A-Team ($13.8 million)
4. Get Him to the Greek ($6.1 million)
5. Shrek Forever After ($5.5 million)
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Posted on June 21, 2010 June 21, 2010 Author Annaka TurnerCategories MoviesTags jonah hex, josh brolin, megan fox, toy story 3 box office, toy story 3 movie, toy story 3 ticket sales, toy story 3 trailer, weekend box office results


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German Mint Upgrades Equipment
It's far from being the first time, but the 650-year-old Stuttgart Mint in Germany is getting three new coining machines. Its "partner," the other state-run mint in Baden-Wurttemberg, will receive an additional machine also. The Karlsruhe Mint was founded in 1827. Both facilities are operated under an umbrella as the Die Staatlichen Münzen Baden-Württemberg, or State Mints of Baden-Wurttemberg, which in turn operates these mints on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
The State Mints of Baden-Wurttemberg represent about 40 percent of all German euro coin production. The two minting operations together employ about 80 people.
Schuler Group will be providing the mints with 150-ton Horizontal MRH presses capable of producing up to 850 coins per minute. These presses can strike singular or bimetallic coins as well as produce coinage blanks.
According to Schuler website information, "For example, at the turn of the 19th Century, it was possible to produce up to 60 coins per minute on Schuler presses – an astonishing achievement for the time. Today, high-performance machines from Schuler achieve performance levels of up to 850 coins per minute. Our customer-focused practical research and development are continuously improving the efficiency of our machines. Ongoing new developments – such as the inscription around the edges of bimetallic coins – supplement our extensive product range."
The website says of the MRH press, "This model series is especially well suited for high-volume minting of coins. The small number of coin-specific change parts ensures short changeover times and broad flexibility of application. Worldwide, Schuler is the sole supplier of this system.
"The fixed connection of the coining punch and slide link drive with the counterbalance of masses assures a longer service life for each press. The presses are mounted on vibration-dampening elements. Each press offers "high-efficiency thanks to [a] reliable transport system from blank feeding to exit-side ejection of coins."
Schuler was founded by Louis Schuler as a metal-working shop in Göppingenin in 1839. The company sent its first coining presses to China in 1895. There have been many innovations since.
According to the Schuler website, "Today Schuler is increasingly concerned with the design of digital value-added services for its customers."
The first coins minted in Stuttgart at what is today part of the State Mints of Baden-Wurttemberg were authorized by Eberhard II, Count of Wurttemberg in 1374. In The Coinage of the European Continent, W. Carew Hazlitt mentions gold florins issued authorized by Ulric VI, Duke of Wurttemburg during the early 16th century as well as later coins. Hazlitt also indicates that the coinage for the dukes of Wurttemburg were almost entirely composed of gold or silver prior to 1840. Hazlitt notes Stuttgart also being identified by other sources as Stugardia.
In Coins of the World, RAG Carson adds, "The [early] coinage...was also exclusively of small silver heller with types of two stags heads."
The Stuttgart Mint retained its role when Wurttemberg joined the German Empire in 1871. The mints of the German Empire were at Berlin (A mintmark), Hanover (B), Frankfurt-am-Main (C), Munich (D), Dresden (E), Stuttgart (F), Karlsruhe (G), Darmnstadt (H) and Hamburg (J) after 1876. The Stuttgart Mint continued to operate after Wurttemberg was merged with Baden to form the federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg in 1951.
Despite both mints being operated by the same government organization, Stuttgart-minted coins continue to carry the "F" mintmark, while coins struck at Karlsruhe use the "G" mintmark.
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Drama at Queen's combines history, theory and practice in an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, to discover why and how theatre works. Performance workshops and productions enable students to draw upon their reading of literary, cultural, historical and sociological studies to inform their practical understanding of performance. Students are also required to attend professional performances, and benefit from our exceptional links with the theatre sector in Northern Ireland and beyond. Visiting professionals lead workshops in specialist areas. Drama Degree Highlights Global Opportunities Queen's University Belfast is committed to providing a range of international opportunities to its students during their degree programme. Details of this provision are currently being finalised and will be available from the University website once confirmed. Industry Links Students have the opportunity to undertake a work placement in Year 3. This is a significant learning and employability enhancement opportunity. Drama at Queen's has unparalleled links with the local theatre sector and collaborates extensively with leading arts organisations and theatre companies, such as the Lyric Theatre, Prime Cut Productions, Kabosh, Tinderbox and Bruiser theatre companies as well as Belfast Festival and the Linen Hall Library, all of whom have helped us develop a vital professional practice dimension as part of our overall provision. World Class Facilities Our main teaching space, the Brian Friel Theatre (www.brianfrieltheatre.co.uk), is one of the best-equipped theatres in Belfast with a 120-seat studio theatre, rehearsal room, dressing rooms, green room and workshop, housed in the Drama and FilmCentre which also comprises the Queen's Film Theatre. Internationally Renowned Experts Our staff expertise encompasses both professional and scholarly aspects of Drama and theatre practice, with many of our team acknowledged internationally as experts working at the cutting edge of research in their fields. Our Chair of Drama, Professor Richard Schoch, is a leading scholar of Shakespeare engaged in research collaborations with the Folger Library and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Richard has won various awards including the 2013 Oscar Brockett Essay Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) and his books have been shortlisted for the Barnard Hewitt Award (ASTR) and the Theatre Book Prize (Society for Theatre Research, UK). Student Experience Extracurricular performance opportunities are offered by the Tyrone Guthrie Society and the student Drama Society, which have taken productions to student festivals in Ireland and the UK. Productions have also been taken to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and to festivals in Belgium and Italy.
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Q: Select for running total rank based on column values I have problem while assigning the Ranks for the below scenarios.In my scenario running total calculated based on the Cnt field.
My sql query should return Rank values like below output. Per page it should accept only 40 rows, so im assigning ranks contain only 40 records. If the running total crossing 40 it should change ranks. For each count 40 it should change the rank values.
It would great help if I can get sql query to return values
select f1,f2,sum(f2) over(order by f1) runnign_total
from [dbo].[Sheet1$]

OutPut:
ID      cnt     Running Total   Rank
1       4       4               1
2       5       9               1
3       4       13              1
4       4       17              1
5       4       21              1
6       5       26              1
7       4       30              1
8       4       34              1
9       4       38              1
10      4       42              2
11      4       46              2
12      4       50              2
13      4       54              2
14      4       58              2
15      4       62              2
16      4       66              2
17      4       70              2
18      4       74              2
19      4       78              2
20      4       82              3
21      4       86              3
22      4       90              3

A: select f1,f2,sum(f2) over(order by f1) running_total, Floor(sum(f2) over(order by f1) / 40) [rank]
from [dbo].[Sheet1$]

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