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Washington Post breaks news on White House counsel
According to quotes in the first piece, pegged to the controversy over what she did and didn't tell the president about the IRS inspector general report, she is a "lawyer's lawyer," "very deliberate" and "one of the most cool headed people in the entire White House." There is also room in the first piece for Ruemmler's "legendary" shoe habit in 2006, she wore pink stilettos while prosecuting Enron! but two paragraphs were simply not enough. Hence the second story, dated five days later, devoted entirely to divulging that Ruemmler owns one pair of shoes characterized by "a jeweled paisley pattern; another is black and strappy." Guys, there is a regular Carrie Bradshaw in the White House.
But wait, you say. If Ruemmler didn't want the Washington Post to talk about her shoes while she's in the midst of White House "scandals," why did she wear them? A truly serious person would tiptoe through the West Wing barefoot. Could she arrange for some office appropriate sackcloth and ashes?
On my personal outrage scale, this ranks around the same place as the same paper describing congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema as "lecturing, hectoring, defensive, accusatory, pouty and curiously repetitive," and just below NPR recently scrubbing its incredulousness that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand could both have a voice and fight sexual assault in the military at the same time. It registers a lot below Vogue pressing Gillibrand again and again about how she lost weight. (The true highlight of Jonathan Van Meter's 2010 story was when he noted that the weight loss would help Gillibrand "no doubt remain attractive to her husband of nine years, who is two years younger than she is." Alternative headline: Sexy cougar gets back her beach body!) But it registers nonetheless. The Washington Post is still one of the country major papers, there are still far too few women in positions of power in the city it mainly covers, and at a time when Ruemmler is in the spotlight for whether she did her job right, the shoe chatter is simply undermining and trivializing.
A recent study conducted by Name It, Change It asked voters to assess hypothetical male and female candidates. Hearing descriptions of the female candidate appearance detrimental impacts on her candidacy even appearance coverage that purports to be neutral or complimentary damages the woman. It cost the male candidate nothing. That probably because the average American still has trouble believing that women can both participate in what Garance Franke Ruta termed system of beauty while working in system of power, such that a woman is more harshly judged for a leisure habit while a man extracurricular habits are brown hermes belt replica par for the course. There is nothing wrong with Ruemmler straying from the sparrow like business casual norm of Washington, to an extent that President Obama has apparently teased her about, but a description of a pair of shoes she wore seven years ago doesn belong in a national newspaper profile of her.
It was once, reluctantly, my professional responsibility to come up to Condoleezza Rice at a gala just after she ceased being secretary of state and ask her what she was wearing. But I worked for a fashion trade paper. Eilperin is the White House reporter, and as I write this, the shoe story is the third most read on the Washington Post's politics section. (How much of that is referrals from furious feminist tweets, one of which I issued, I cannot know.) Meanwhile, that shoe story, which Eilperin impressively carried on her own, is sadly undermined by the fact that the only photographic proof of Ruemmler's alleged fabulousness is her wearing muted beige heels.
There is something else that is interesting about that photograph: There are eight people in Hermes belt replica france the room, and Ruemmler is the only woman. Indeed, the first story notes that Ruemmler operates in a White House in which "some women complained that they felt marginalized" and that she is "one of the few women who has been able to imitation hermes mens belt break into the club." She has apparently imitation hermes belt sale done so on her own terms, professionally speaking, which can be easy. So here is a proposal for the politics reporters who want to add color and to their prose: How about we issue a moratorium until there more than one woman in the room, and see what happens?
According to quotes in the first piece, pegged to the controversy over what she did and didn't tell the president about the IRS inspector general report, she is a "lawyer's lawyer," "very deliberate" and "one of the most cool headed people in the entire White House." There is also room in the first piece for Ruemmler's "legendary" shoe habit in 2006, she wore pink stilettos while prosecuting Enron! but two paragraphs were simply not enough. Hence the second story, dated five days later, devoted entirely to divulging that Ruemmler owns one pair of shoes characterized by "a jeweled paisley pattern; another is black and strappy." Guys, there is a regular Carrie Bradshaw in the White House.
But wait, you say. If Ruemmler didn't want the Washington Post to talk about her shoes while she's in the midst of White House "scandals," why did she wear them? A truly serious person would tiptoe through the West Wing barefoot. Could she arrange for some office appropriate sackcloth and ashes?
On my personal outrage scale, this ranks around the same place as the same paper describing congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema as "lecturing, hectoring, defensive, accusatory, pouty and curiously repetitive," and just below NPR recently scrubbing its incredulousness that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand could both have a voice and fight sexual assault in the military at the same time. It registers a lot below Vogue pressing Gillibrand again and again about how she lost weight. (The true highlight of Jonathan Van Meter's 2010 story was when he noted that the weight loss would help Gillibrand "no doubt remain attractive to her husband of nine years, who is two years younger than she is." Alternative headline: Sexy cougar gets back her beach body!) But it registers nonetheless. The Washington Post is still one of the country major papers, there are still far too few women in positions of power in the city it mainly covers, and at a time when Ruemmler is in the spotlight for whether she did her job right, the shoe chatter is simply undermining and trivializing.
A recent study conducted by Name It, Change It asked voters to assess hypothetical male and female candidates. Hearing descriptions of the female candidate appearance detrimental impacts on her candidacy even appearance coverage that purports to be neutral or complimentary damages the woman. It cost the male candidate nothing. That probably because the average American still has trouble believing that women can both participate in what Garance Franke Ruta termed system of beauty while working in system of power, such that a woman is more harshly judged for a leisure habit while a man extracurricular habits are brown hermes belt replica par for the course. There is nothing wrong with Ruemmler straying from the sparrow like business casual norm of Washington, to an extent that President Obama has apparently teased her about, but a description of a pair of shoes she wore seven years ago doesn belong in a national newspaper profile of her.
It was once, reluctantly, my professional responsibility to come up to Condoleezza Rice at a gala just after she ceased being secretary of state and ask her what she was wearing. But I worked for a fashion trade paper. Eilperin is the White House reporter, and as I write this, the shoe story is the third most read on the Washington Post's politics section. (How much of that is referrals from furious feminist tweets, one of which I issued, I cannot know.) Meanwhile, that shoe story, which Eilperin impressively carried on her own, is sadly undermined by the fact that the only photographic proof of Ruemmler's alleged fabulousness is her wearing muted beige heels.
There is something else that is interesting about that photograph: There are eight people in Hermes belt replica france the room, and Ruemmler is the only woman. Indeed, the first story notes that Ruemmler operates in a White House in which "some women complained that they felt marginalized" and that she is "one of the few women who has been able to imitation hermes mens belt break into the club." She has apparently imitation hermes belt sale done so on her own terms, professionally speaking, which can be easy. So here is a proposal for the politics reporters who want to add color and to their prose: How about we issue a moratorium until there more than one woman in the room, and see what happens?
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When your friends turn into salesmen
IT SEEMED an innocent enough invitation at first. A neighbour asked me round to discuss a new business she was involved with. Then she got to talking about enzymes and medical curatives, and did I realise that the nutritional industry was one of the largest growingin the world? She said that she had been wanting to get into that area for a long time but only recently had she found a product she thought was really worthwhile. All very interesting. At this point a very attractive woman in a very short dress who my neighbour said was also "involved" arrived and sat in on proceedings, beaming encouragingly.
Did I know, continued my neighbour, about this wonderful product called Juice Plus, which was "flash dried", powdered raw fruit and veg in capsules? Not a vitamin, not a dietary supplement, but the real thing. The company that made them was called NSA, and the amazing thing about all NSA's products was they are not available in the shops. How was it done? Had I heard of network marketing?
Her patter went on for about an hour before it dawned on me I was being baited to join a pyramid selling outfit. I should have walked out there and then, but I was too polite and her chat was too good. After I left I felt literally sick with stupidity athaving been duped so easily.
Network marketing is, its advocates claim, one of the few boom businesses of the Nineties. How it works sounds simple: you join a company, buy their products (your initial layout might be a few hundred pounds), and sell them on a part time basis to friends, family and colleagues. But the more important part of the business is to recruit people to join the structure below you, and then make roll on commissions from their sales. For example, you join and then recruit five people below you. All they need to do is recruit five each, making 25. Then if each of those recruits five, and so on, you soon have 625 people in your organisation, all selling things from which you take a cut. In a few years time you could be making, fake hermes belt price oh, about 18, 000 a month. Sound good?
The growing numbers involved in network marketing suggest that plenty of people think so. In the last four years of recession the larger network companies have particularly targeted middle class recruits with the promise of a lucrative part time income.
Most of the big companies are American: appropriately, the best known, Amway, is an acronym of "the American Way". Amway's main lines are household cleaning fluids, nutrition products and cosmetics. Other major players include NSA, specialising in Juice Plus, water filters and security devices, Herbalife (nutrition) and Cabouchon (jewellery and fashion accessories).
Unemployed graduates, freelancers and management victims of "company downsizing" are particularly likely to be tapped, as are married couples (which are seen as more efficient networking units). If it hasn't yet happened to you, it is likely that sometime this year, sooner rather than later, a colleague, an old friend, or someone you meet at a wedding will mention a "business opportunity you might be interested in". Over 442,000 people are now involved in the whole direct selling business in the UK.
Network marketing companies would like to be seen as part of the same tradition as the Tupperware and Avon ladies, but it is a cosy connection which is almost perniciously misleading. You can close the door on the Britannica man, and you know exactly what he is offering. But as I found out, the whole process of recruitment into network marketing is more insidious, exploiting social and family relationships to personal advantage.
Another journalist friend had a similar experience. "Some old family friends said: 'As a freelance you'll be interested in a business opportunity from a $4bn company.' I agreed to go to a meeting and dress smartly: they said someone was coming from a long way to talk to us. It turned out that I knew all the other people there hermes mens belt replica all of them were family friends. It was ridiculous and embarrassing."
Alistair, an hermes men belt replica administrator in the music business, and his wife recently met another young couple a friend's wedding. After they had been chatting and drinking for a while, Alistair admitted he felt that for someone in his mid thirties he was under achieving. The man said he knew of a business opportunity, and how about lunch at a hotel near Heathrow.
"I had the impression we were discussing a serious sideline proposition, but it turned out to be one step up from door to door, as it were," recalls Alistair. "As soon as I saw all these books under the coffee table about Success I began to have my doubts. But he was an excellent salesman and I left the hotel feeling 50/50 about it. Fortunately my wife snapped me out of it." Had she not, Alistair could have ended up joining Amway. "As soon as I thought it through I realised I was going to lose all my friends because you have to sell to them, and the products they were offering weren't even that great."
The products are in fact of secondary importance. As Alistair discovered, the recruitment process involves a lot of dream talk: where do you want to be in five years time, don't you want to walk the beaches of the world in retirement? "A lot of people are unsatisfied in their job and if a short cut is offered I can understand why they would want to do it," says Alistair. "A lot of people don't value their friends that highly, and the family is the only important thing. They think, well, if w e lose our friends we've still got each other." And indeed in the lobby of Amway's UK headquarters in Milton Keynes one wall is adorned with photographs of happy, smiling prosperous couples.
Peter and Gay Lewis, as youthful a pair in their early 50s as you are likely to come across, fit that description pretty well. They are top ranking distributors with Caura, one of the fastest growing network marketing companies, selling costume jewellery. "I really enjoy it," chirps Gay. "I love the product and it's great to run your own business, though you have to work hard." She concentrates on selling the wares while Peter looks after building the network, which already has 300 members. (Formerly they ran a small jewellery company of their own.) "Over the next three to five years this will become an international business of people we can work with as friends," beams Peter. "We are both Roman Catholics and I like to be doing a business that is ethical and where we can make friends some money." There have, however, been accusations of cultishness levelled at some network marketing companies. Leaders of Amway "groups" are known to organise huge, evangelical style rall ies to deliver their message ofpersonal fortune. My own experience with NSA, following my neighbour's initial sales pitch, raised questions about where super sales techniques become psychological manipulation.
About a week after she had approached me, I was invited to an NSA meeting to find out more, and as my journalistic hackles had been raised I decided to go along. It was held at the prestigious Institute of Directors. Everyone in the audience of about 40 people was very smart, the men in suits, the women power dressed.
A woman called Fatima Murray, evidently someone at or very near the top of a pyramid, gave a talk which used the classic techniques of both the salesman and the evangelist of repeating key phrases, gradually slipping from "I" to "we", and of posing questions only a fool would say no to. "The question that begs to be answered is: hermes classic belt replica is this business worth six years of part time effort for an income of approximately 19,000 per month? Do ask yourself that question." Then there was the cultish paranoia about the outside world's ignorance. After the meeting someone high up in NSA told me: "I would suggest you didn't talk about this too much to your friends because of course there is a negativity. It might spoil things for later."
When I told the same man that selling wasn't for me, he said selling had little to do with it. "What we are is messengers, we are creating a picture. That picture can be whatever you want it to be you know, people think they might pay the school fees or buy a holiday." The products were easy to move, they sold themselves.
Dan Shuster, general manager of Amway UK, also insisted: "We don't promote hard selling. We don't tell people to go door to door." When I asked how important it was to actually shift a large amount of products, he agreed that, "some people concentrate more on building the business than selling. And that's where the real money is."
This is the old problem with pyramids: the top glitters and the bottom struggles. The turnover of personnel in the network marketing business is 120 per cent a year. There is every indication that many drop it pretty quickly. It is plugged as a part timebusiness, but it seems it has to be more or less full time to make proper money.
Yet somewhere in all this there is a genuine business trend. Ten years ago, another direct purchase method, the mail order business, was negligible: now it is worth 5bn. There does appear to be more willingness among the British to shop at home and buy from friends, even in well to do circles. Caura, for example, is well established among the Chelsea set, and even the Princess of Wales is thought to have bought some of their trinkets. The managing director, Charles Owen, is aware of the uneasiness manyfeel buying from friends and is launching a direct order scheme soon.
"People know where they are with jewellery a harder sell is needed for washing up liquid," he says. "If you look at women speaking socially, they say, 'That's a lovely dress, where did you get it?' " Caura, he says, in 18 months has grossed 5m and has5,500 distributors.
It sounds harmless enough. But if my neighbour ever changes her line to jewellery, I wouldn't cross the road if she was giving it away.
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IT SEEMED an innocent enough invitation at first. A neighbour asked me round to discuss a new business she was involved with. Then she got to talking about enzymes and medical curatives, and did I realise that the nutritional industry was one of the largest growingin the world? She said that she had been wanting to get into that area for a long time but only recently had she found a product she thought was really worthwhile. All very interesting. At this point a very attractive woman in a very short dress who my neighbour said was also "involved" arrived and sat in on proceedings, beaming encouragingly.
Did I know, continued my neighbour, about this wonderful product called Juice Plus, which was "flash dried", powdered raw fruit and veg in capsules? Not a vitamin, not a dietary supplement, but the real thing. The company that made them was called NSA, and the amazing thing about all NSA's products was they are not available in the shops. How was it done? Had I heard of network marketing?
Her patter went on for about an hour before it dawned on me I was being baited to join a pyramid selling outfit. I should have walked out there and then, but I was too polite and her chat was too good. After I left I felt literally sick with stupidity athaving been duped so easily.
Network marketing is, its advocates claim, one of the few boom businesses of the Nineties. How it works sounds simple: you join a company, buy their products (your initial layout might be a few hundred pounds), and sell them on a part time basis to friends, family and colleagues. But the more important part of the business is to recruit people to join the structure below you, and then make roll on commissions from their sales. For example, you join and then recruit five people below you. All they need to do is recruit five each, making 25. Then if each of those recruits five, and so on, you soon have 625 people in your organisation, all selling things from which you take a cut. In a few years time you could be making, fake hermes belt price oh, about 18, 000 a month. Sound good?
The growing numbers involved in network marketing suggest that plenty of people think so. In the last four years of recession the larger network companies have particularly targeted middle class recruits with the promise of a lucrative part time income.
Most of the big companies are American: appropriately, the best known, Amway, is an acronym of "the American Way". Amway's main lines are household cleaning fluids, nutrition products and cosmetics. Other major players include NSA, specialising in Juice Plus, water filters and security devices, Herbalife (nutrition) and Cabouchon (jewellery and fashion accessories).
Unemployed graduates, freelancers and management victims of "company downsizing" are particularly likely to be tapped, as are married couples (which are seen as more efficient networking units). If it hasn't yet happened to you, it is likely that sometime this year, sooner rather than later, a colleague, an old friend, or someone you meet at a wedding will mention a "business opportunity you might be interested in". Over 442,000 people are now involved in the whole direct selling business in the UK.
Network marketing companies would like to be seen as part of the same tradition as the Tupperware and Avon ladies, but it is a cosy connection which is almost perniciously misleading. You can close the door on the Britannica man, and you know exactly what he is offering. But as I found out, the whole process of recruitment into network marketing is more insidious, exploiting social and family relationships to personal advantage.
Another journalist friend had a similar experience. "Some old family friends said: 'As a freelance you'll be interested in a business opportunity from a $4bn company.' I agreed to go to a meeting and dress smartly: they said someone was coming from a long way to talk to us. It turned out that I knew all the other people there hermes mens belt replica all of them were family friends. It was ridiculous and embarrassing."
Alistair, an hermes men belt replica administrator in the music business, and his wife recently met another young couple a friend's wedding. After they had been chatting and drinking for a while, Alistair admitted he felt that for someone in his mid thirties he was under achieving. The man said he knew of a business opportunity, and how about lunch at a hotel near Heathrow.
"I had the impression we were discussing a serious sideline proposition, but it turned out to be one step up from door to door, as it were," recalls Alistair. "As soon as I saw all these books under the coffee table about Success I began to have my doubts. But he was an excellent salesman and I left the hotel feeling 50/50 about it. Fortunately my wife snapped me out of it." Had she not, Alistair could have ended up joining Amway. "As soon as I thought it through I realised I was going to lose all my friends because you have to sell to them, and the products they were offering weren't even that great."
The products are in fact of secondary importance. As Alistair discovered, the recruitment process involves a lot of dream talk: where do you want to be in five years time, don't you want to walk the beaches of the world in retirement? "A lot of people are unsatisfied in their job and if a short cut is offered I can understand why they would want to do it," says Alistair. "A lot of people don't value their friends that highly, and the family is the only important thing. They think, well, if w e lose our friends we've still got each other." And indeed in the lobby of Amway's UK headquarters in Milton Keynes one wall is adorned with photographs of happy, smiling prosperous couples.
Peter and Gay Lewis, as youthful a pair in their early 50s as you are likely to come across, fit that description pretty well. They are top ranking distributors with Caura, one of the fastest growing network marketing companies, selling costume jewellery. "I really enjoy it," chirps Gay. "I love the product and it's great to run your own business, though you have to work hard." She concentrates on selling the wares while Peter looks after building the network, which already has 300 members. (Formerly they ran a small jewellery company of their own.) "Over the next three to five years this will become an international business of people we can work with as friends," beams Peter. "We are both Roman Catholics and I like to be doing a business that is ethical and where we can make friends some money." There have, however, been accusations of cultishness levelled at some network marketing companies. Leaders of Amway "groups" are known to organise huge, evangelical style rall ies to deliver their message ofpersonal fortune. My own experience with NSA, following my neighbour's initial sales pitch, raised questions about where super sales techniques become psychological manipulation.
About a week after she had approached me, I was invited to an NSA meeting to find out more, and as my journalistic hackles had been raised I decided to go along. It was held at the prestigious Institute of Directors. Everyone in the audience of about 40 people was very smart, the men in suits, the women power dressed.
A woman called Fatima Murray, evidently someone at or very near the top of a pyramid, gave a talk which used the classic techniques of both the salesman and the evangelist of repeating key phrases, gradually slipping from "I" to "we", and of posing questions only a fool would say no to. "The question that begs to be answered is: hermes classic belt replica is this business worth six years of part time effort for an income of approximately 19,000 per month? Do ask yourself that question." Then there was the cultish paranoia about the outside world's ignorance. After the meeting someone high up in NSA told me: "I would suggest you didn't talk about this too much to your friends because of course there is a negativity. It might spoil things for later."
When I told the same man that selling wasn't for me, he said selling had little to do with it. "What we are is messengers, we are creating a picture. That picture can be whatever you want it to be you know, people think they might pay the school fees or buy a holiday." The products were easy to move, they sold themselves.
Dan Shuster, general manager of Amway UK, also insisted: "We don't promote hard selling. We don't tell people to go door to door." When I asked how important it was to actually shift a large amount of products, he agreed that, "some people concentrate more on building the business than selling. And that's where the real money is."
This is the old problem with pyramids: the top glitters and the bottom struggles. The turnover of personnel in the network marketing business is 120 per cent a year. There is every indication that many drop it pretty quickly. It is plugged as a part timebusiness, but it seems it has to be more or less full time to make proper money.
Yet somewhere in all this there is a genuine business trend. Ten years ago, another direct purchase method, the mail order business, was negligible: now it is worth 5bn. There does appear to be more willingness among the British to shop at home and buy from friends, even in well to do circles. Caura, for example, is well established among the Chelsea set, and even the Princess of Wales is thought to have bought some of their trinkets. The managing director, Charles Owen, is aware of the uneasiness manyfeel buying from friends and is launching a direct order scheme soon.
"People know where they are with jewellery a harder sell is needed for washing up liquid," he says. "If you look at women speaking socially, they say, 'That's a lovely dress, where did you get it?' " Caura, he says, in 18 months has grossed 5m and has5,500 distributors.
It sounds harmless enough. But if my neighbour ever changes her line to jewellery, I wouldn't cross the road if she was giving it away.
6 An advice sheet on network marketing is available from the DTI, tel 071 215 3342
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For those who want to walk on the weirder side of short term home rentals, a quick search of Airbnb listings in Toronto revealed a number of different options for those who want to rest their head in someone else space.
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response has been minimal and because the vehicle is so fake hermes bag old, I set the price to a point where I comfortable with someone sleeping in it and there are options at the same price point that are inside a house or apartment, Brown told the Sun. get specific adventurous people hitting me up about it. It up to you where you want to sleep and that the way it should be. include shampoo, washer, free parking and Wi Fi on premises. Location at Dovercourt Park in the Dovercourt and Dupont St. area. $50 a night.
2. Sleep in a former car repair shop
Originally a car repair shop, the owner converted it into an open concept, one bedroom apartment with European detailing while maintaining its industrial feel. The listing maintains the apartment is very private, located next to a dog park and a commuter train running on the other side of a large yard. $300 per night.
3. Who needs to leave the city to go camping?
This ad lists a spacious tent in the backyard and shows just that a blue tent set up in a grassy backyard in the Mount Olive area in Rexdale. According to host Candice who has a similar listing for in the back or private room campers will receive WARM wool blankets on bed. Tent is provided by me, and I will gladly assist you in anything you may need or require while you are camping out in my backyard. $15 to $18 per night, with a $7 cleaning fee and a security deposit of $125.
One reviewer wrote: description fits: Simply a tent. It is not very much appreciated if you use the fashion cheap hermes handbags bathroom tho; in the morning you might just have to do it in the garden if you up early. Be aware that this is a somewhat dangerous neighbourhood, right on the intersection of two gang territories. Don go out at night! Napstay instead of homestay
Host Karen is calling her place the Station and with rooms close to the airport, invites anyone with an outgoing flight to take a snooze. out a nap room, relax in our lounge, or get any nagging work tasks out of the way before your flight from our business centre, she said in her ad. The nap room is set up with a single customizable bed. place charges by the hour and is more intended for a quick rest stop for tired travellers. A three hour stay costs $29, or $59 for a whole night.
5. Sleep, don sail, in a boat
For those who prefer the motion of waves to rock them to sleep, there are a number of sailboat homestays for rent on the site. One titled Sailboat in Toronto can accommodate four guests on board the hybrid sailboat/motorboat but because of insurance reasons, they cannot actually go sailing. downtown in a secure gated marina at Ontario Place. You will sleep in a 26 foot MacGregor. Water, electricity is included, as well as running private amenities (showers, toilets). Across from Molson Amphitheatre so concerts might be on. $124 a night.
WHAT THE CITY MUNICIPAL LICENSING AND STANDARDS SAYS:
To date, MLS has laid one charge against an Airbnb rental property, on Glenelia Ave., which is before the courts. Earlier this year, councillors asked licensing staff to report back on a way for such apartment sharing companies to be designated under the zoning bylaw.
Mark Sraga, director of investigations, says if there are complaints a building is violating zoning bylaws, then one of its officers can lay a Provincial Offences Act charge. If found guilty by the courts, owners can face fines under the Planning Act.
For those who want to walk on the weirder side of short term home rentals, a quick search of Airbnb listings in Toronto revealed a number of different options for those who want to rest their head in someone else space.
1. Take a trip back to the Brown, a 26 year old freelancer who works mostly in music, fixed up his 1971 Volkswagen van a few years ago and decided it was a good way to make some extra money renting it as a place to sleep. The van is also available to hire for weddings.
response has been minimal and because the vehicle is so old, I set the price to a point where I comfortable with someone sleeping in it and there are options at the same price point that are inside a house or apartment, Brown told the Sun.
Not everyone wants to rent a mansion or a trendy loft.
For those who want to walk on the weirder side of short term home rentals, a quick search of Airbnb listings in Toronto revealed a number of different options for those who want to rest their head in someone else space.
1. Take a trip back to the Brown, replica hermes handbags outlet a 26 year old freelancer who works replica birkin handbags mostly in music, fixed up his 1971 Volkswagen van a few years ago and decided it was a good way to make some extra money renting it as a place to sleep. The van is also available to hire for weddings.
response has been minimal and because the vehicle is so fake hermes bag old, I set the price to a point where I comfortable with someone sleeping in it and there are options at the same price point that are inside a house or apartment, Brown told the Sun. get specific adventurous people hitting me up about it. It up to you where you want to sleep and that the way it should be. include shampoo, washer, free parking and Wi Fi on premises. Location at Dovercourt Park in the Dovercourt and Dupont St. area. $50 a night.
2. Sleep in a former car repair shop
Originally a car repair shop, the owner converted it into an open concept, one bedroom apartment with European detailing while maintaining its industrial feel. The listing maintains the apartment is very private, located next to a dog park and a commuter train running on the other side of a large yard. $300 per night.
3. Who needs to leave the city to go camping?
This ad lists a spacious tent in the backyard and shows just that a blue tent set up in a grassy backyard in the Mount Olive area in Rexdale. According to host Candice who has a similar listing for in the back or private room campers will receive WARM wool blankets on bed. Tent is provided by me, and I will gladly assist you in anything you may need or require while you are camping out in my backyard. $15 to $18 per night, with a $7 cleaning fee and a security deposit of $125.
One reviewer wrote: description fits: Simply a tent. It is not very much appreciated if you use the fashion cheap hermes handbags bathroom tho; in the morning you might just have to do it in the garden if you up early. Be aware that this is a somewhat dangerous neighbourhood, right on the intersection of two gang territories. Don go out at night! Napstay instead of homestay
Host Karen is calling her place the Station and with rooms close to the airport, invites anyone with an outgoing flight to take a snooze. out a nap room, relax in our lounge, or get any nagging work tasks out of the way before your flight from our business centre, she said in her ad. The nap room is set up with a single customizable bed. place charges by the hour and is more intended for a quick rest stop for tired travellers. A three hour stay costs $29, or $59 for a whole night.
5. Sleep, don sail, in a boat
For those who prefer the motion of waves to rock them to sleep, there are a number of sailboat homestays for rent on the site. One titled Sailboat in Toronto can accommodate four guests on board the hybrid sailboat/motorboat but because of insurance reasons, they cannot actually go sailing. downtown in a secure gated marina at Ontario Place. You will sleep in a 26 foot MacGregor. Water, electricity is included, as well as running private amenities (showers, toilets). Across from Molson Amphitheatre so concerts might be on. $124 a night.
WHAT THE CITY MUNICIPAL LICENSING AND STANDARDS SAYS:
To date, MLS has laid one charge against an Airbnb rental property, on Glenelia Ave., which is before the courts. Earlier this year, councillors asked licensing staff to report back on a way for such apartment sharing companies to be designated under the zoning bylaw.
Mark Sraga, director of investigations, says if there are complaints a building is violating zoning bylaws, then one of its officers can lay a Provincial Offences Act charge. If found guilty by the courts, owners can face fines under the Planning Act.
For those who want to walk on the weirder side of short term home rentals, a quick search of Airbnb listings in Toronto revealed a number of different options for those who want to rest their head in someone else space.
1. Take a trip back to the Brown, a 26 year old freelancer who works mostly in music, fixed up his 1971 Volkswagen van a few years ago and decided it was a good way to make some extra money renting it as a place to sleep. The van is also available to hire for weddings.
response has been minimal and because the vehicle is so old, I set the price to a point where I comfortable with someone sleeping in it and there are options at the same price point that are inside a house or apartment, Brown told the Sun.
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In: Reilly O'Brien (rookie upgrade), Jordan Gallucci (pick 15), Myles Poholke (44), Elliot Himmelberg (51), Matthew Signorello (62), Ben Davis (75), Ben Jarman (rookie)
Out: Nathan van Berlo, Mitch Grigg, Ricky Henderson, Matthew Jaensch, Luke Lowden, Jarryd Lyons, Keenan Ramsay
WHAT THEY GOT: The Crows prioritised their midfield and got imitation hermes belt on sale some power and pace in Gallucci and Poholke. Davis has some speed too, while Himmelberg will add key position depth at either end. Could be light on for key defenders if Talia and Lever happen to go down at the same time.
IMPACT: Having chased Bryce Gibbs and failed to get him whatever the Crows did off season would look to have fallen short. Gibbs' star power could have truly elevated them into contention with another elite and versatile mid forward. As it is they didn't get him or anyone else likely to have an immediate impact (you can't assume a draftee will do so, though Cameron could play more midfield and Milera is on the up). So they go in next year with basically the same look, relying on improvement from within.
In: Jack Frost, Archie Smith (rookie upgrade), Matt Eagles (rookie, The Recruit), Hugh McCluggage (pick 3), Jarrod Berry (17), Alex Witherden (23), Cedric Cox (24), Jacob Allison (55), Corey Lyons (71), Mitch Hinge (rookie), Jake Barrett (rookie), Oscar McInerney (rookie), Blake Grewar (rookie)
Out: Hugh Beasley, Justin Clarke, Billy Evans, Josh Green, Pearce Hanley, Josh McGuinness, Daniel Merrett, Jackson Paine, Josh Watts, Trent West, Jaden McGrath.
WHAT THEY GOT: a top quality midfielder in McCluggage, who should play plenty of games. Addressed a key need in adding Berry (courage), Witherden (foot skills) and Cox (speed, and tricks) to their backline. Not many mid sized forwards on the list so will need to kick goals from the midfield.
IMPACT: More upheaval than the US government. Of the outs only Pearce Hanley will hurt. Tom Rockliff was retained but won't be captain, whether he is destabilising will have a say on their year. They brought in depth with Jack Frost but otherwise harvested the draft which means the impact will take time, notwithstanding the effect of a new coach. Well placed for, say, two years down the track if they get things right and develop their big clutch of talented youngsters well. Havequalitydeveloping talls and should take steps in 2017.
In: Ciaran Byrne (rookie upgrade), Caleb Marchbank, Rhys Palmer, Jarrod Pickett, Billie Smedts, Sam Petrevski Seton (pick 6), Zac Fisher (27), Harrison Macreadie (47), Cameron Polson (59), Tom Williamson (61), Patrick Kerr (65), Kym LeBois (rookie), Alex Silvagni (rookie)
Out: Matthew Dick, Andrejs Everitt, Jayden Foster, Billy Gowers, Michael Jamison, Ciaran Sheehan, Clem Smith, Zach Tuohy, Jason Tutt, Dillon Viojo Rainbow, Andrew Walker, Mark Whiley, Cameron Wood.
WHAT THEY GOT: a top rated midfielder in Petrevski Seton who is skilful, tough and ambitious. Fisher players there too, though they're still light on for midfield numbers. More running backs. A high potential key back in Marchbank who'll make them better. A couple of much needed crumbing options. A key forward in Kerr to develop alongside McKay and Curnow.
IMPACT: The Blues did a lot right off season. They refused to trade Gibbs for baubles which was right but hermes brown belt imitation now they have a senior player who wanted to leave. This is Bolton's team, looking at the outs. They have chased kids and a few depth top ups Smedts, Palmer, Silvagni. Marchbank, if he gets on the ground more often, will be a big bonus teaming with Weiteringat one end and McKay and Curnow atthe other. That's a long term spine but only a developing one next year. Tuohy out hurts their run.
In: Lynden Dunn, Will Hoskin Elliott, Lachlan Keeffe, Chris Mayne, Josh Smith, Daniel Wells, Sam McLarty (pick 30), Callum Brown (35), Kayle Kirby (50), Josh Daicos (57), Mitch McCarthy (rookie), Henry Schade (rookie), Liam Mackie (rookie), Max Lynch (rookie)
Out: Nathan Brown, Travis Cloke, Jack Frost, Corey Gault, Tim Golds, Matthew Goodyear, Brent Macaffer, Dane Swan, Alan Toovey, Marley hermes belts Knockoff Williams, Jarrod Witts, Darrean Wyatt, Jonathon Marsh
WHAT THEY GOT: Replaced outgoing key backs with draftees McLarty and McCarthy and the more ready to play Dunn, Schade. Added a couple more small forwards in Daicos and Kirby (Brown will likely start there too) and will go in with largely the same midfield group, with the added class of Wells and pace of Hoskin Elliott.
IMPACT: Wells' was a very good pick up. He's got run, class and (as long as he is fit) is a match winner. The midfield now looks deep and dangerous. Mayne would want to remember how he played two years ago, Hoskin Elliott is very outside but is young, fast and good overhead. If Reid falls over they are vulnerable and they know it Keeffe, Schade and Dunn brought in as immediate cover and they've traded in kids to play the position long term. With Elliott back they should bump next year the coach needs them to.
Out: Jason Ashby, Adam Cooney, Ryan Crowley, Courtenay Dempsey, Shaun Edwards, Nathan Grima, Sam Grimley, James Gwilt, Will Hams, Michael Hibberd, Mark Jamar, Nick Kommer, Sam Michael, Gach Nyuon, Tayte Pears, James Polkinghorne, Jonathan Simpkin, Mathew Stokes, Tom Wallis
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IMPACT: Even the Bombers don't know what to expect. What impact the year out for so many players? What is the best 22? On paper they now look as strong as any top eight team. They found good players last year (Merrett, Fantasia, McDonald Tipungwuti), have elite young midfielders out of the draft (McGrath and Parish) and Daniher and Hurley at each end.
In: Joel Hamling, Bradley Hill, Shane Kersten, Cameron McCarthy, Griffin Logue (pick 8), Sean Darcy (38), Brennan Cox (41), Luke Ryan (66), Taylin Duman (rookie), Luke Strnadica (rookie)
Out: Michael Barlow, Matt de Boer, Jack Hannath, Sean Hurley, Chris Mayne, Anthony Morabito, Tendai Mzungu, Matthew Pavlich, Clancee Pearce, Alex Silvagni, Tanner Smith.
WHAT THEY GOT: A ready to play key back in Hamling, a mature age running back in Ryan, plus a couple of tall defenders to develop. Ready to go key forwards in Kersten and McCarthy. An instant addition for the midfield in Hill (with Bennell in the wings) and a raw ruck prospect (Darcy).
IMPACT: Forecasting Fremantle is the riskiest proposition in football. With Fyfe back they simply have to be better. Joel Hamling was great for the Dogs and while he's still young and raw he should be a good pick up. But Cam McCarthy? Who knows? After what he has gone through it's impossible to know. Hill will give them run and daring which they've lacked. They can't be worse.
In: Aaron Black, Tom Ruggles (rookie upgrade), Zach Tuohy, Brandan Parfitt (pick 26), Tom Stewart (40), Esava Ratugolea (43), Quinton Narkle (60), Timm House (68), Ryan Abbott (69), Jack Henry (rookie), Zach Guthrie (rookie), Jamaine Jones (rookie), Sam Simpson (rookie)
Out: Jimmy Bartel, Zac Bates, Josh Caddy, Mitch Clark, Jock Cornell, Cameron Delaney, Corey Enright, Shane Kersten, Padraig Lucey, Michael Luxford, Tom Read, Billie Smedts, Nathan Vardy.
WHAT THEY GOT: Some speed and excitement in Parfitt, Narkle and Jones, and for their forward line (Ratugolea). All are an investment in the future. Mature age prospects for a few different parts of the ground (Stewart, Abbott and House), who they will be hoping can step in and play straight away if required. Replaced Kersten, who played plenty of games last year, with Black.
IMPACT: Lost Caddy but gained Tuohy. They need more run from defence than midfield depth so are better off. Enright was still playing good footy so he will be a loss. Time was right on Bartel. Deledio would have been ideal but curiously it didn't happen yet they still did a deal on Caddy. Black for Kersten is zero sum.
In: Pearce Hanley, Jesse Joyce (rookie upgrade), Jarryd Lyons, Jarrod Witts, Michael Barlow, Ben Ainsworth (pick 4), Jack Scrimshaw (7), Will Brodie (9), Jack Bowes (10), Brad Scheer (67), Max Spencer (rookie)
Out: Clay Cameron, Tom Keough, Nick Malceski, Jaeger O'Meara, Dion Prestia, Luke Russell, Henry Schade, Danny Stanley, Seb Tape.
In: Reilly O'Brien (rookie upgrade), Jordan Gallucci (pick 15), Myles Poholke (44), Elliot Himmelberg (51), Matthew Signorello (62), Ben Davis (75), Ben Jarman (rookie)
Out: Nathan van Berlo, Mitch Grigg, Ricky Henderson, Matthew Jaensch, Luke Lowden, Jarryd Lyons, Keenan Ramsay
WHAT THEY GOT: The Crows prioritised their midfield and got imitation hermes belt on sale some power and pace in Gallucci and Poholke. Davis has some speed too, while Himmelberg will add key position depth at either end. Could be light on for key defenders if Talia and Lever happen to go down at the same time.
IMPACT: Having chased Bryce Gibbs and failed to get him whatever the Crows did off season would look to have fallen short. Gibbs' star power could have truly elevated them into contention with another elite and versatile mid forward. As it is they didn't get him or anyone else likely to have an immediate impact (you can't assume a draftee will do so, though Cameron could play more midfield and Milera is on the up). So they go in next year with basically the same look, relying on improvement from within.
In: Jack Frost, Archie Smith (rookie upgrade), Matt Eagles (rookie, The Recruit), Hugh McCluggage (pick 3), Jarrod Berry (17), Alex Witherden (23), Cedric Cox (24), Jacob Allison (55), Corey Lyons (71), Mitch Hinge (rookie), Jake Barrett (rookie), Oscar McInerney (rookie), Blake Grewar (rookie)
Out: Hugh Beasley, Justin Clarke, Billy Evans, Josh Green, Pearce Hanley, Josh McGuinness, Daniel Merrett, Jackson Paine, Josh Watts, Trent West, Jaden McGrath.
WHAT THEY GOT: a top quality midfielder in McCluggage, who should play plenty of games. Addressed a key need in adding Berry (courage), Witherden (foot skills) and Cox (speed, and tricks) to their backline. Not many mid sized forwards on the list so will need to kick goals from the midfield.
IMPACT: More upheaval than the US government. Of the outs only Pearce Hanley will hurt. Tom Rockliff was retained but won't be captain, whether he is destabilising will have a say on their year. They brought in depth with Jack Frost but otherwise harvested the draft which means the impact will take time, notwithstanding the effect of a new coach. Well placed for, say, two years down the track if they get things right and develop their big clutch of talented youngsters well. Havequalitydeveloping talls and should take steps in 2017.
In: Ciaran Byrne (rookie upgrade), Caleb Marchbank, Rhys Palmer, Jarrod Pickett, Billie Smedts, Sam Petrevski Seton (pick 6), Zac Fisher (27), Harrison Macreadie (47), Cameron Polson (59), Tom Williamson (61), Patrick Kerr (65), Kym LeBois (rookie), Alex Silvagni (rookie)
Out: Matthew Dick, Andrejs Everitt, Jayden Foster, Billy Gowers, Michael Jamison, Ciaran Sheehan, Clem Smith, Zach Tuohy, Jason Tutt, Dillon Viojo Rainbow, Andrew Walker, Mark Whiley, Cameron Wood.
WHAT THEY GOT: a top rated midfielder in Petrevski Seton who is skilful, tough and ambitious. Fisher players there too, though they're still light on for midfield numbers. More running backs. A high potential key back in Marchbank who'll make them better. A couple of much needed crumbing options. A key forward in Kerr to develop alongside McKay and Curnow.
IMPACT: The Blues did a lot right off season. They refused to trade Gibbs for baubles which was right but hermes brown belt imitation now they have a senior player who wanted to leave. This is Bolton's team, looking at the outs. They have chased kids and a few depth top ups Smedts, Palmer, Silvagni. Marchbank, if he gets on the ground more often, will be a big bonus teaming with Weiteringat one end and McKay and Curnow atthe other. That's a long term spine but only a developing one next year. Tuohy out hurts their run.
In: Lynden Dunn, Will Hoskin Elliott, Lachlan Keeffe, Chris Mayne, Josh Smith, Daniel Wells, Sam McLarty (pick 30), Callum Brown (35), Kayle Kirby (50), Josh Daicos (57), Mitch McCarthy (rookie), Henry Schade (rookie), Liam Mackie (rookie), Max Lynch (rookie)
Out: Nathan Brown, Travis Cloke, Jack Frost, Corey Gault, Tim Golds, Matthew Goodyear, Brent Macaffer, Dane Swan, Alan Toovey, Marley hermes belts Knockoff Williams, Jarrod Witts, Darrean Wyatt, Jonathon Marsh
WHAT THEY GOT: Replaced outgoing key backs with draftees McLarty and McCarthy and the more ready to play Dunn, Schade. Added a couple more small forwards in Daicos and Kirby (Brown will likely start there too) and will go in with largely the same midfield group, with the added class of Wells and pace of Hoskin Elliott.
IMPACT: Wells' was a very good pick up. He's got run, class and (as long as he is fit) is a match winner. The midfield now looks deep and dangerous. Mayne would want to remember how he played two years ago, Hoskin Elliott is very outside but is young, fast and good overhead. If Reid falls over they are vulnerable and they know it Keeffe, Schade and Dunn brought in as immediate cover and they've traded in kids to play the position long term. With Elliott back they should bump next year the coach needs them to.
Out: Jason Ashby, Adam Cooney, Ryan Crowley, Courtenay Dempsey, Shaun Edwards, Nathan Grima, Sam Grimley, James Gwilt, Will Hams, Michael Hibberd, Mark Jamar, Nick Kommer, Sam Michael, Gach Nyuon, Tayte Pears, James Polkinghorne, Jonathan Simpkin, Mathew Stokes, Tom Wallis
WHAT THEY GOT: Three new young midfielders, including No. 1 pick McGrath. More mid sized options for the backline. An athletic key forward in Stewart who has some developing to still do and a crumber in Green who could make a difference if fit. Used the first hermes men belt replica pick in the rookie draft to add a developing ruckman.
IMPACT: Even the Bombers don't know what to expect. What impact the year out for so many players? What is the best 22? On paper they now look as strong as any top eight team. They found good players last year (Merrett, Fantasia, McDonald Tipungwuti), have elite young midfielders out of the draft (McGrath and Parish) and Daniher and Hurley at each end.
In: Joel Hamling, Bradley Hill, Shane Kersten, Cameron McCarthy, Griffin Logue (pick 8), Sean Darcy (38), Brennan Cox (41), Luke Ryan (66), Taylin Duman (rookie), Luke Strnadica (rookie)
Out: Michael Barlow, Matt de Boer, Jack Hannath, Sean Hurley, Chris Mayne, Anthony Morabito, Tendai Mzungu, Matthew Pavlich, Clancee Pearce, Alex Silvagni, Tanner Smith.
WHAT THEY GOT: A ready to play key back in Hamling, a mature age running back in Ryan, plus a couple of tall defenders to develop. Ready to go key forwards in Kersten and McCarthy. An instant addition for the midfield in Hill (with Bennell in the wings) and a raw ruck prospect (Darcy).
IMPACT: Forecasting Fremantle is the riskiest proposition in football. With Fyfe back they simply have to be better. Joel Hamling was great for the Dogs and while he's still young and raw he should be a good pick up. But Cam McCarthy? Who knows? After what he has gone through it's impossible to know. Hill will give them run and daring which they've lacked. They can't be worse.
In: Aaron Black, Tom Ruggles (rookie upgrade), Zach Tuohy, Brandan Parfitt (pick 26), Tom Stewart (40), Esava Ratugolea (43), Quinton Narkle (60), Timm House (68), Ryan Abbott (69), Jack Henry (rookie), Zach Guthrie (rookie), Jamaine Jones (rookie), Sam Simpson (rookie)
Out: Jimmy Bartel, Zac Bates, Josh Caddy, Mitch Clark, Jock Cornell, Cameron Delaney, Corey Enright, Shane Kersten, Padraig Lucey, Michael Luxford, Tom Read, Billie Smedts, Nathan Vardy.
WHAT THEY GOT: Some speed and excitement in Parfitt, Narkle and Jones, and for their forward line (Ratugolea). All are an investment in the future. Mature age prospects for a few different parts of the ground (Stewart, Abbott and House), who they will be hoping can step in and play straight away if required. Replaced Kersten, who played plenty of games last year, with Black.
IMPACT: Lost Caddy but gained Tuohy. They need more run from defence than midfield depth so are better off. Enright was still playing good footy so he will be a loss. Time was right on Bartel. Deledio would have been ideal but curiously it didn't happen yet they still did a deal on Caddy. Black for Kersten is zero sum.
In: Pearce Hanley, Jesse Joyce (rookie upgrade), Jarryd Lyons, Jarrod Witts, Michael Barlow, Ben Ainsworth (pick 4), Jack Scrimshaw (7), Will Brodie (9), Jack Bowes (10), Brad Scheer (67), Max Spencer (rookie)
Out: Clay Cameron, Tom Keough, Nick Malceski, Jaeger O'Meara, Dion Prestia, Luke Russell, Henry Schade, Danny Stanley, Seb Tape.
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With all respect to my friends at the CBC, I've always rolled my eyes at the notion that Canadians must tell "our stories." Canada has its own history, of course, and we should study it. It has its own celebrities, villains, heroes. But our stories, in general, are largely similar to anyone's stories. We're blessed to live in a land of plenty and peace, but humanity is what it is. And the more we try to tell uniquely Canadian stories, the more time we spend gazing more like glaring up our own navels.That's not to say we should ignore ourselves. Of course not. Our stories will be told, when they're worth telling. But too much "CanCon" is just an attempt to take a story you could set anywhere and Canadianify it, with often boring or simply awful results. When a Canadian story resonates, it'll resonate. You won't need to wrap up in a Maple Leaf flag and tell it, in both official languages, from the bleachers of a small town hockey rink, steaming cup of Tims in hand.But the Tragically Hip resonate, with me and millions of other Canadians. So the news, imitation hermes belt on sale released Tuesday, that frontman and lead singer Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer, resonated too.I'm by no means a Tragically Hip mega fan. They aren't even my favourite Canadian band that would be Rush, thank you very much. But the Tragically Hip has been a big, big replica Hermes belts france part of the soundtrack of my life for decades. I strongly associate periods with the music I was into at that time. I had Elvis Costello years. A long Collective Soul period. Went full Johnny Cash for a while. But throughout it all, there's been Tragically Hip, telling Canadian stories the way they should be told: naturally, easily, and unpretentiously. They don'tneed to be buffedup withsome nationalistic polish to work.Is that a credit to the music? Undoubtedly. The group knows how to rock, and a lot of that is thanks to Downie and that magical voice of his. (Word from his medical team that the cancer is directly affecting the speech centre of the brain is a particularly cruel bit of news tacked onto an already grim announcement.) But some of it has to be that impossible to nail down sense of that these guys are the real deal authentic Canadians, whatever that means.Try to introduce the Tragically Hip to Americans and Australians as I have and they may think a few of the songs are great. They'll acknowledge the band is musically talented. But they just don't get it. Maybethey can't.I don't know why that is. It probably even undercuts my dismissal above of there being uniquely Canadian stories that only Canadians can tell. Perhaps they're the exception that proves the rule. God only knows how much money has been spent trying to hermes classic belt replica find a unique Canadian spin on the sitcom, or the historical drama, or the daytime talk show. And then along comes a group of guys from Kingston, Ont., and they nail Canada without even trying.If I had to guess why the band hits all the right notes with Canadians, it's because there'sliterally a song for every season with the Hip. A choice for every mood. And if those songs include the odd little detail that directly speaks to mydaily routine and surroundings, all the subtle stuff you wouldn't notice until you've done it a thousand times,I guess it's not a surprise that the Hip's songsworked their way into my memory.Bobcaygeon is probably the default cottage song for the entire country, perhaps only rivalled by hermes black belt knockoff FireworksIndeed, sometimes so deep into my memory that it often seems I can't remember certain parts of my life without thinking of the songs. Their album Trouble at the Hen Houseis basically mysoundtrack forlong minivanrides up to the cottage on dark, winter nights mom and dad up front, my sister and I in the middle, and our long passed dog panting away on the back seat. Those opening moments of Gift Shop put me right back into the van. I'm 13 years old again, and the headlights of the van are bouncingoff the snowflakes coming down in front of the windshield. Bobcaygeon is probably the default cottage song for the entire country, perhaps only rivalled by Fireworks. (I admit it helps that my cottage is nearBobcaygeon.) Their new albums haven't grabbed me as much as the older stuff, but even my son, not quite two, can't help but dance when Love is a First comes up on daddy's iPhone.The Tragically Hip issimply too Canadian to ever be dismissed as CanCon filler. The band says Downie is up to one more round of concerts. They're not calling it a farewell tour, but that's what it is. He hosts Radio every weekday morning from 7 to 10 Eastern on SiriusXM's Canada Talks, channel 167.Reevely: Ontario's hydro plan will cost $21 billion more than it saves it's terrible public policyThe jiggery pokery the Ontario Liberals are using to cut hydro bills will eventually.Glavin: We're shedding idiotic talk about terrorismThe most dramatic event that occurred in Britain this week may or may not have been.Denley: City planning needs more imagination and fewer rulesThe replacement of the Ontario Municipal Board with a new, less powerful, appeal.Reevely: Less than half of Ottawa's clean water projects get fundingOttawa is stuck figuring out how to pay for almost two dozen projects.Reevely: Ontario's hydro plan will cost $21 billion more than it saves it's terrible public policyThe jiggery pokery the Ontario Liberals are using to cut hydro bills will eventually.Levy Kasende was shot through the heart in 2012 Ottawa revenge killing: CrownLevy Kasende had finally embraced his future as a young father but the crack dealer.'It has been a long few days': Jonathan Pitre on medical roller coasterJonathan Pitre has been on a medical roller coaster in the week since blood tests.Countdown to Confederation Line: Contractor to turn over $2.1B LRT line in one yearIn exactly one year May 24, 2018 the city's light rail contractor, Rideau Transit.{ displayName }Postmedia wants to improve your reading experience as well as share the best deals and promotions from our advertisers with you. 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With all respect to my friends at the CBC, I've always rolled my eyes at the notion that Canadians must tell "our stories." Canada has its own history, of course, and we should study it. It has its own celebrities, villains, heroes. But our stories, in general, are largely similar to anyone's stories. We're blessed to live in a land of plenty and peace, but humanity is what it is. And the more we try to tell uniquely Canadian stories, the more time we spend gazing more like glaring up our own navels.That's not to say we should ignore ourselves. Of course not. Our stories will be told, when they're worth telling. But too much "CanCon" is just an attempt to take a story you could set anywhere and Canadianify it, with often boring or simply awful results. When a Canadian story resonates, it'll resonate. You won't need to wrap up in a Maple Leaf flag and tell it, in both official languages, from the bleachers of a small town hockey rink, steaming cup of Tims in hand.But the Tragically Hip resonate, with me and millions of other Canadians. So the news, imitation hermes belt on sale released Tuesday, that frontman and lead singer Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer, resonated too.I'm by no means a Tragically Hip mega fan. They aren't even my favourite Canadian band that would be Rush, thank you very much. But the Tragically Hip has been a big, big replica Hermes belts france part of the soundtrack of my life for decades. I strongly associate periods with the music I was into at that time. I had Elvis Costello years. A long Collective Soul period. Went full Johnny Cash for a while. But throughout it all, there's been Tragically Hip, telling Canadian stories the way they should be told: naturally, easily, and unpretentiously. They don'tneed to be buffedup withsome nationalistic polish to work.Is that a credit to the music? Undoubtedly. The group knows how to rock, and a lot of that is thanks to Downie and that magical voice of his. (Word from his medical team that the cancer is directly affecting the speech centre of the brain is a particularly cruel bit of news tacked onto an already grim announcement.) But some of it has to be that impossible to nail down sense of that these guys are the real deal authentic Canadians, whatever that means.Try to introduce the Tragically Hip to Americans and Australians as I have and they may think a few of the songs are great. They'll acknowledge the band is musically talented. But they just don't get it. Maybethey can't.I don't know why that is. It probably even undercuts my dismissal above of there being uniquely Canadian stories that only Canadians can tell. Perhaps they're the exception that proves the rule. God only knows how much money has been spent trying to hermes classic belt replica find a unique Canadian spin on the sitcom, or the historical drama, or the daytime talk show. And then along comes a group of guys from Kingston, Ont., and they nail Canada without even trying.If I had to guess why the band hits all the right notes with Canadians, it's because there'sliterally a song for every season with the Hip. A choice for every mood. And if those songs include the odd little detail that directly speaks to mydaily routine and surroundings, all the subtle stuff you wouldn't notice until you've done it a thousand times,I guess it's not a surprise that the Hip's songsworked their way into my memory.Bobcaygeon is probably the default cottage song for the entire country, perhaps only rivalled by hermes black belt knockoff FireworksIndeed, sometimes so deep into my memory that it often seems I can't remember certain parts of my life without thinking of the songs. Their album Trouble at the Hen Houseis basically mysoundtrack forlong minivanrides up to the cottage on dark, winter nights mom and dad up front, my sister and I in the middle, and our long passed dog panting away on the back seat. Those opening moments of Gift Shop put me right back into the van. I'm 13 years old again, and the headlights of the van are bouncingoff the snowflakes coming down in front of the windshield. Bobcaygeon is probably the default cottage song for the entire country, perhaps only rivalled by Fireworks. (I admit it helps that my cottage is nearBobcaygeon.) Their new albums haven't grabbed me as much as the older stuff, but even my son, not quite two, can't help but dance when Love is a First comes up on daddy's iPhone.The Tragically Hip issimply too Canadian to ever be dismissed as CanCon filler. The band says Downie is up to one more round of concerts. They're not calling it a farewell tour, but that's what it is. He hosts Radio every weekday morning from 7 to 10 Eastern on SiriusXM's Canada Talks, channel 167.Reevely: Ontario's hydro plan will cost $21 billion more than it saves it's terrible public policyThe jiggery pokery the Ontario Liberals are using to cut hydro bills will eventually.Glavin: We're shedding idiotic talk about terrorismThe most dramatic event that occurred in Britain this week may or may not have been.Denley: City planning needs more imagination and fewer rulesThe replacement of the Ontario Municipal Board with a new, less powerful, appeal.Reevely: Less than half of Ottawa's clean water projects get fundingOttawa is stuck figuring out how to pay for almost two dozen projects.Reevely: Ontario's hydro plan will cost $21 billion more than it saves it's terrible public policyThe jiggery pokery the Ontario Liberals are using to cut hydro bills will eventually.Levy Kasende was shot through the heart in 2012 Ottawa revenge killing: CrownLevy Kasende had finally embraced his future as a young father but the crack dealer.'It has been a long few days': Jonathan Pitre on medical roller coasterJonathan Pitre has been on a medical roller coaster in the week since blood tests.Countdown to Confederation Line: Contractor to turn over $2.1B LRT line in one yearIn exactly one year May 24, 2018 the city's light rail contractor, Rideau Transit.{ displayName }Postmedia wants to improve your reading experience as well as share the best deals and promotions from our advertisers with you. 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Vincent Van Gogh painting Sunset at Montmajour discovered in attic unveiled in Amsterdam
Sunset at Montmajour, a landscape of trees and sky in the south of France in Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes was painted in 1888 but has been lying in the attic of a Norwegian collector who bought the painting in 1908 but dismissed it as a fake.
The painting was unveiled at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on Monday, with Axel Rueger. the director, describing it as a "once in a lifetime experience".
It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day July 4, 1888.
He said the painting was done "on a stony heath where small twisted oaks grow".
Researcher Teio Meedendorp said he and other researchers "have found answers to all the key questions, which is remarkable for a painting that has been lost for more than 100 years".
The painting was listed among Theo van Gogh's collection as number 180, and that number can still be seen on the back of the canvas. The work was sold in 1901.
Mr Rueger said the museum had itself rejected the painting's authenticity in the 1990s, in part because it was not signed. But new research techniques and a two year investigation had convinced them.
The long lost painting was made at around the same time as some of Van Gogh's most famous works, including Sunflowers and The Bedroom.
"This is a very, very special morning and you're seeing a very, very happy director in front of you," Mr Rueger told AFP.
"When I was told that it had been authenticated as a genuine Van Gogh I could not believe it."
The museum declined to be drawn on the identity of the mystery collectors.
"Unfortunately we cannot divulge too much about the identity of this collector as we need also to protect his privacy," Mr Rueger said.
"But what I can tell you is that the painting has been lying in the attic for most of this time."
The Van Gogh Museum reopened its doors to the public in early May with a stunning new display of some of the Dutch master's greatest works, completing a trio of renovations of fashion cheap hermes handbags the city's most famous museums.
It is located on Amsterdam's historic Museumplein where many other Dutch art treasures like Rembrandt's Night Watch can also be found at the recently reopened Rijksmuseum.
The museum features 200 works, 140 by the Hermes birkin bags fake Dutch master himself and replica birkin handbags the rest by contemporary painters.
They include other iconic works such as The bedroom, the Irises, The Potato Eaters and the ominous Wheatfield with crows.
The newly unveiled Van Gogh will go on display on September 24, on a year long loan from its imitiaton hermes bag owner.
With its reopening, the museum expects to attract some 1.2 million visitors over the next year and is one of the world's 25 most popular museums, according to the City of Amsterdam.
The Van Gogh Museum was the last of Amsterdam's three major museums to reopen its doors after extensive refurbishments, underlining the Dutch capital's status as a top art destination.
Sunset at Montmajour, a landscape of trees and sky in the south of France in Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes was painted in 1888 but has been lying in the attic of a Norwegian collector who bought the painting in 1908 but dismissed it as a fake.
The painting was unveiled at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on Monday, with Axel Rueger. the director, describing it as a "once in a lifetime experience".
It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day July 4, 1888.
He said the painting was done "on a stony heath where small twisted oaks grow".
Researcher Teio Meedendorp said he and other researchers "have found answers to all the key questions, which is remarkable for a painting that has been lost for more than 100 years".
The painting was listed among Theo van Gogh's collection as number 180, and that number can still be seen on the back of the canvas. The work was sold in 1901.
Mr Rueger said the museum had itself rejected the painting's authenticity in the 1990s, in part because it was not signed. But new research techniques and a two year investigation had convinced them.
The long lost painting was made at around the same time as some of Van Gogh's most famous works, including Sunflowers and The Bedroom.
"This is a very, very special morning and you're seeing a very, very happy director in front of you," Mr Rueger told AFP.
"When I was told that it had been authenticated as a genuine Van Gogh I could not believe it."
The museum declined to be drawn on the identity of the mystery collectors.
"Unfortunately we cannot divulge too much about the identity of this collector as we need also to protect his privacy," Mr Rueger said.
"But what I can tell you is that the painting has been lying in the attic for most of this time."
The Van Gogh Museum reopened its doors to the public in early May with a stunning new display of some of the Dutch master's greatest works, completing a trio of renovations of fashion cheap hermes handbags the city's most famous museums.
It is located on Amsterdam's historic Museumplein where many other Dutch art treasures like Rembrandt's Night Watch can also be found at the recently reopened Rijksmuseum.
The museum features 200 works, 140 by the Hermes birkin bags fake Dutch master himself and replica birkin handbags the rest by contemporary painters.
They include other iconic works such as The bedroom, the Irises, The Potato Eaters and the ominous Wheatfield with crows.
The newly unveiled Van Gogh will go on display on September 24, on a year long loan from its imitiaton hermes bag owner.
With its reopening, the museum expects to attract some 1.2 million visitors over the next year and is one of the world's 25 most popular museums, according to the City of Amsterdam.
The Van Gogh Museum was the last of Amsterdam's three major museums to reopen its doors after extensive refurbishments, underlining the Dutch capital's status as a top art destination.
Washington end up at the heart of a murder case
Produced by Chris O'Connell and Greg Fisher
This story first aired on April 26, 2014. It was updated on June 27, 2015.
"This is Whidbey Island, where I grew up from birth 'til I was 8 years old," Peggy Sue Thomas said as she looked out toward the island aboard a ferry.
"How does a former beauty queen end up at the heart of a murder case?" "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant asked Thomas.
"I don't even know how to answer I don't know how I ended up here," she replied in her only TV interview.
Before she was a murder suspect, imitiaton hermes bag Thomas, 48, had already lived a full life. She's a former beauty queen, but Thomas wasn't born with a pageant sash across her chest.
"And I'm all about proving myself in a man's world," she said.
Thomas was a trailblazer. In the Navy, she served as an aircraft mechanic during Operation Desert Storm.
"Do you see yourself as a patriot?" Van Sant asked Thomas
"I am very patriotic, yes," she replied.
Along the way, she married and divorced three times raising two beautiful daughters, Taylor and Mariah.
"My kids are my proudest accomplishment," said Thomas.
But in the late 90s, with her second marriage on the rocks, Thomas physically transformed herself.
"It was amazing . She started working out and the weight just fell off," said Vicky Boyer, who was once Thomas' good friend. "To me, I was like, 'You go girl!' And then, someone had approached her about maybe being Ms. Washington."
"And I was down and a little heartbroken. And she said, 'Do something crazy.' So I did," Thomas told Van Sant. "I ended up winning."
"I'd fake hermes bag rather wear jeans and boots and jump on a Harley than be a beauty queen," she said.
Peggy Sue Thomas
In her home, however, Peggy Thomas' pageant memorabilia holds a special place of honor.
"I think it meant everything to her," Boyer said. "Everything she needed came from that pageant."
By 2003, Thomas was living in Las Vegas, where she worked as a glamorous limousine driver to high rollers.
"I spoiled my clients. And my tips were often in the thousands for one night. It was my all time favorite job ever," she said.
To understand how this beauty queen made yet another transformation to murder suspect you have to go back to a cold, dark night on Whidbey Island in December 2003:
KIRO TV report: Tonight, Island County detectives have a murder mystery on their hands. They're looking for the person or persons responsible for the shooting death of 32 year old Russel Douglas.
Russel Douglas' vehicle at the crime scene
Detective Mark Plumberg of the Island County Sheriff's Department was called to the scene that night.
"It's dark, secluded dead end road, not a lot of traffic . It's a good spot for a murder," Det. Plumberg said. "The car was in a dark driveway, door replica hermes handbags outlet open, Russel was inside the vehicle . it was a massively traumatic wound."
Russel Douglas was the estranged husband of Brenna Douglas, one of Peggy Sue Thomas' good friends.
"After we had confirmed the identity of the man in the vehicle as being Russel Douglas, we . decided to go and speak with the wife Brenna Douglas," Hermes birkin bags fake said Plumberg.
Produced by Chris O'Connell and Greg Fisher
This story first aired on April 26, 2014. It was updated on June 27, 2015.
"This is Whidbey Island, where I grew up from birth 'til I was 8 years old," Peggy Sue Thomas said as she looked out toward the island aboard a ferry.
"How does a former beauty queen end up at the heart of a murder case?" "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant asked Thomas.
"I don't even know how to answer I don't know how I ended up here," she replied in her only TV interview.
Before she was a murder suspect, imitiaton hermes bag Thomas, 48, had already lived a full life. She's a former beauty queen, but Thomas wasn't born with a pageant sash across her chest.
"And I'm all about proving myself in a man's world," she said.
Thomas was a trailblazer. In the Navy, she served as an aircraft mechanic during Operation Desert Storm.
"Do you see yourself as a patriot?" Van Sant asked Thomas
"I am very patriotic, yes," she replied.
Along the way, she married and divorced three times raising two beautiful daughters, Taylor and Mariah.
"My kids are my proudest accomplishment," said Thomas.
But in the late 90s, with her second marriage on the rocks, Thomas physically transformed herself.
"It was amazing . She started working out and the weight just fell off," said Vicky Boyer, who was once Thomas' good friend. "To me, I was like, 'You go girl!' And then, someone had approached her about maybe being Ms. Washington."
"And I was down and a little heartbroken. And she said, 'Do something crazy.' So I did," Thomas told Van Sant. "I ended up winning."
"I'd fake hermes bag rather wear jeans and boots and jump on a Harley than be a beauty queen," she said.
Peggy Sue Thomas
In her home, however, Peggy Thomas' pageant memorabilia holds a special place of honor.
"I think it meant everything to her," Boyer said. "Everything she needed came from that pageant."
By 2003, Thomas was living in Las Vegas, where she worked as a glamorous limousine driver to high rollers.
"I spoiled my clients. And my tips were often in the thousands for one night. It was my all time favorite job ever," she said.
To understand how this beauty queen made yet another transformation to murder suspect you have to go back to a cold, dark night on Whidbey Island in December 2003:
KIRO TV report: Tonight, Island County detectives have a murder mystery on their hands. They're looking for the person or persons responsible for the shooting death of 32 year old Russel Douglas.
Russel Douglas' vehicle at the crime scene
Detective Mark Plumberg of the Island County Sheriff's Department was called to the scene that night.
"It's dark, secluded dead end road, not a lot of traffic . It's a good spot for a murder," Det. Plumberg said. "The car was in a dark driveway, door replica hermes handbags outlet open, Russel was inside the vehicle . it was a massively traumatic wound."
Russel Douglas was the estranged husband of Brenna Douglas, one of Peggy Sue Thomas' good friends.
"After we had confirmed the identity of the man in the vehicle as being Russel Douglas, we . decided to go and speak with the wife Brenna Douglas," Hermes birkin bags fake said Plumberg.
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Tanglin Mall sits just west of Singapore swankiest shopping street; a four storey building that home to a gourmet supermarket, a clutch of cafes and boutiques selling European toys and books. Every Christmas, families bring their children to play in its annual snow show.
For many Singaporeans, it the mall no idea that was what locals fake hermes black belt called it, says Jennifer Gargiulo, an Italian born lecturer of humanities and literature at Yale NUS College in Singapore, whose blog musings on her family life in the city state have been published as the Diary of an Expat in Singapore.
Expatriates the world over are often seen as existing in cosseted bubbles, living and interacting only with those who share their nationality or language. But the reality, like the nature of the expat world itself, is complicated and changing. Nowadays expats are just as likely to be Asian as they are Western and an increasing number of professionals are moving abroad independently, instead of on a company sponsored posting. But are they sticking with their compatriots or mingling with locals? And, if you want to get to know the people and culture of your host country, how do you break out of the expat bubble?
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Gargiulo says that while her friends are expats for example, the other parents at United World College where her children go to school (and is open to Singaporean children only in limited circumstances) she has got to know some locals, and their culture, through her colleagues, her work contacts and even her students.
You could live in a complete bubble, but you would be losing so much
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Of course, in some places, where the expat population far exceeds the local one, sticking within the bubble isn so difficult. In Dubai, the overall foreign population makes up about 88% of those living in the emirate, according to the International Organisation for Migration. In nearby Qatar, it 76%, the IOM data shows. Unsurprisingly, in these places expats are more likely to socialise with each other (65% in Qatar and similar levels in the UAE and other Gulf states), according to InterNations, the global expat networking group.
In Kuwait, 31% of expats said making local friends was difficult
In a country like Saudi Arabia, the demographics aren so stark, but strict rules govern society, making it hard for expats to make friends among the local community. Some 61% of the expats InterNations surveyed there said they found it difficult to make local friends. In Kuwait, 31% went as far as to describe the process of making local friends as difficult.
Fiona Gavin, who works in finance at a multinational, arrived in Yangon a couple of years ago as Myanmar opened to the outside world, after decades of military rule had reduced what was once one of Asia richest nations to one of its poorest.
That meant chaotic roads and pavements, patchy electricity and little in the way of the basic amenities, such as reliable healthcare. In those early days, even the 35 year old Irishwoman, a veteran of postings to Zurich and Shanghai, sometimes felt a little overwhelmed, retreating to the calm, and more comfortable confines fake hermes brown belt whosale of her hotel.
Now, thanks to Facebook, online networking groups, embassy events and the local chambers of commerce, Gavin has built up a diverse circle of friends including expats and Burmese locals. While there are certain restaurants, bars and clubs, all you see are expats Gavin says she found it easy to make friends with local people.
have great English here and are happy to meet foreigners, she says in an email from Yangon. you can speak some basic Burmese and smile at people you can have a wonderful time with the locals. Oh, and football, of course. A lot of my friends who have Burmese friends play sport together. differences
But understanding cultural differences is also crucial, she adds. At the weekend, Burmese people will probably spend time with their families or go to the pagoda. And, while a Westerner might want to go out to a nightclub and party into the early hours, a Burmese friend is more likely to want to go home by 10pm to be up early the next day.
Knowing how to socialise in a specific culture can prevent disappointments.
socialise in different ways in different countries, Marian van Bakel, assistant professor at the department of marketing and management at the University of Southern Denmark wrote in an email. example, in the Netherlands there is quite a large divide between work and private life, yet many expats expect their colleagues to invite them for dinner or drinks and then get disappointed when this doesn really happen. Knowing how to socialise in a specific culture can prevent disappointments. Dutch researcher also says personality, attitude, and the place in which the person works and lives all influence the development of expat social networks.
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When she fake hermes belts whosale first arrived in Amsterdam a decade ago, Cecily Layzell found the move more of a challenge than she had expected. Layzell, 39, felt the Netherlands offered better job prospects than her home in Britain, but alone in unfamiliar surroundings she struggled to find her feet. Looking back, she admits she was a little na nearly gave up and went home several times. was a job at an Irish pub a place Layzell had vowed never to work because she thought it was too much of an expat clich that finally helped her settle. It was about two years in that I decided I was going to stay a while and that learning the language made sense. connections
Layzell is one of a growing number of young professionals who head overseas looking for work, usually on local terms, and end up staying. But for other expats, making friends with locals may not be such a necessity. After all, it often other expats who are better placed to advise newcomers on schools, accommodation and dealing with utilities, and the posting may only last two or three years.
Other expats are also easy to meet through the office, kids schools and even around the playgrounds and pools of their apartment complexes. But the internet has hugely expanded the opportunities for those who want to meet people outside their own community, including like minded locals.
People like meeting other expats who might have had the same problems and dealt with them
At InterNations, which operates in 390 cities around the world, about 30% of its membership is local. At a recent event in London, British citizens were among the 100 different nationalities who signed up.
like meeting other expats who might have had the same problems and dealt with them, says InterNations co founder Malte Zeeck. they also want to meet locals who know the city even better and want to share their culture.
Tanglin Mall sits just west of Singapore swankiest shopping street; a four storey building that home to a gourmet supermarket, a clutch of cafes and boutiques selling European toys and books. Every Christmas, families bring their children to play in its annual snow show.
For many Singaporeans, it the mall no idea that was what locals fake hermes black belt called it, says Jennifer Gargiulo, an Italian born lecturer of humanities and literature at Yale NUS College in Singapore, whose blog musings on her family life in the city state have been published as the Diary of an Expat in Singapore.
Expatriates the world over are often seen as existing in cosseted bubbles, living and interacting only with those who share their nationality or language. But the reality, like the nature of the expat world itself, is complicated and changing. Nowadays expats are just as likely to be Asian as they are Western and an increasing number of professionals are moving abroad independently, instead of on a company sponsored posting. But are they sticking with their compatriots or mingling with locals? And, if you want to get to know the people and culture of your host country, how do you break out of the expat bubble?
View image of (Credit: Getty Images)
Gargiulo says that while her friends are expats for example, the other parents at United World College where her children go to school (and is open to Singaporean children only in limited circumstances) she has got to know some locals, and their culture, through her colleagues, her work contacts and even her students.
You could live in a complete bubble, but you would be losing so much
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Of course, in some places, where the expat population far exceeds the local one, sticking within the bubble isn so difficult. In Dubai, the overall foreign population makes up about 88% of those living in the emirate, according to the International Organisation for Migration. In nearby Qatar, it 76%, the IOM data shows. Unsurprisingly, in these places expats are more likely to socialise with each other (65% in Qatar and similar levels in the UAE and other Gulf states), according to InterNations, the global expat networking group.
In Kuwait, 31% of expats said making local friends was difficult
In a country like Saudi Arabia, the demographics aren so stark, but strict rules govern society, making it hard for expats to make friends among the local community. Some 61% of the expats InterNations surveyed there said they found it difficult to make local friends. In Kuwait, 31% went as far as to describe the process of making local friends as difficult.
Fiona Gavin, who works in finance at a multinational, arrived in Yangon a couple of years ago as Myanmar opened to the outside world, after decades of military rule had reduced what was once one of Asia richest nations to one of its poorest.
That meant chaotic roads and pavements, patchy electricity and little in the way of the basic amenities, such as reliable healthcare. In those early days, even the 35 year old Irishwoman, a veteran of postings to Zurich and Shanghai, sometimes felt a little overwhelmed, retreating to the calm, and more comfortable confines fake hermes brown belt whosale of her hotel.
Now, thanks to Facebook, online networking groups, embassy events and the local chambers of commerce, Gavin has built up a diverse circle of friends including expats and Burmese locals. While there are certain restaurants, bars and clubs, all you see are expats Gavin says she found it easy to make friends with local people.
have great English here and are happy to meet foreigners, she says in an email from Yangon. you can speak some basic Burmese and smile at people you can have a wonderful time with the locals. Oh, and football, of course. A lot of my friends who have Burmese friends play sport together. differences
But understanding cultural differences is also crucial, she adds. At the weekend, Burmese people will probably spend time with their families or go to the pagoda. And, while a Westerner might want to go out to a nightclub and party into the early hours, a Burmese friend is more likely to want to go home by 10pm to be up early the next day.
Knowing how to socialise in a specific culture can prevent disappointments.
socialise in different ways in different countries, Marian van Bakel, assistant professor at the department of marketing and management at the University of Southern Denmark wrote in an email. example, in the Netherlands there is quite a large divide between work and private life, yet many expats expect their colleagues to invite them for dinner or drinks and then get disappointed when this doesn really happen. Knowing how to socialise in a specific culture can prevent disappointments. Dutch researcher also says personality, attitude, and the place in which the person works and lives all influence the development of expat social networks.
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When she fake hermes belts whosale first arrived in Amsterdam a decade ago, Cecily Layzell found the move more of a challenge than she had expected. Layzell, 39, felt the Netherlands offered better job prospects than her home in Britain, but alone in unfamiliar surroundings she struggled to find her feet. Looking back, she admits she was a little na nearly gave up and went home several times. was a job at an Irish pub a place Layzell had vowed never to work because she thought it was too much of an expat clich that finally helped her settle. It was about two years in that I decided I was going to stay a while and that learning the language made sense. connections
Layzell is one of a growing number of young professionals who head overseas looking for work, usually on local terms, and end up staying. But for other expats, making friends with locals may not be such a necessity. After all, it often other expats who are better placed to advise newcomers on schools, accommodation and dealing with utilities, and the posting may only last two or three years.
Other expats are also easy to meet through the office, kids schools and even around the playgrounds and pools of their apartment complexes. But the internet has hugely expanded the opportunities for those who want to meet people outside their own community, including like minded locals.
People like meeting other expats who might have had the same problems and dealt with them
At InterNations, which operates in 390 cities around the world, about 30% of its membership is local. At a recent event in London, British citizens were among the 100 different nationalities who signed up.
like meeting other expats who might have had the same problems and dealt with them, says InterNations co founder Malte Zeeck. they also want to meet locals who know the city even better and want to share their culture.
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Vodafone's Project Spring to pressure competitors
PARIS/LONDON Vodafone's plan to boost investment in broadband and superfast mobile networks after its $130 billion deal with Verizon could force its European competitors to increase their own spending and even prompt further deal making.
Under its "Project Spring", Vodafone plans to raise its capital expenditures by 6 billion pounds ($9 billion) over three financial years to improve network quality for customers in Europe and emerging markets such as India and South Africa.
Strong growth in data consumption by smartphones, tablets and other devices means network quality is becoming more important in the fight to win and keep customers.
With that in mind, Vodafone decided to plough some of the proceeds from the sale of its 45 percent in Verizon Wireless into infrastructure. But the bulk of the windfall $84 billion will be handed to shareholders with the rest to pay down debt.
The move is also a sign that Chief Executive Vittorio Colao is betting the sector will benefit from softer regulation from the European Commission after it spent years forcing down roaming and other types of mobile call fees.
EU telecoms chief Neelie Kroes is expected to unveil a plan on September 11 to create a single market for telecom services as part an effort to boost competitiveness and help Europe catch up with the United States and Asia in mobile and broadband.
"The commission is getting clearly more pro investment and understands that some of its past decisions were not helpful," Colao said on a call with analysts on Tuesday.
Promising to provide more details of the financial returns from Project Spring in November, Colao said the group's big competitors were also likely to increase network investments.
"With the advent of 4G mobile, there is a window for number one or two players in each market to spring ahead and put more space between us and smaller players," he said.
"The operators with bigger shoulders will follow us, while the smaller ones, or the ones who are more financially constrained, may not be able to."The pressure from a stronger Vodafone is likely to be toughest for Telefonica in Spain, Germany, and Britain and Telecom Italia in Italy. Both groups have high levels of debt that they have been trying to pay down.
Germany, in particular, is likely to be a battlefield. Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom each have about 34 percent of mobile service revenue, and fourth placed Telefonica has agreed to buy third placed KPN.
Niek Jan van Damme, head of Deutsche Telekom's German operations, told Reuters on Tuesday that he expected Vodafone to plough more money into Germany, although it remained to be seen how profitable that would be.
"We will have to decide whether we have to do something," he said, adding that he sees further consolidation in Europe ahead.
A sector banker predicted that Project Spring would pressure other telcos to raise investments and spur them to consolidate, provided European antitrust regulators permit such deals.
Regulators are now examining consolidation deals, which risk hitting consumers with higher prices by reducing the number of operators, proposed by Hutchison Whampoa in Ireland and Telefonica in Germany.
The Vodafone deal and its ramped up network investments have "significant ramifications for the sector that have not been fully understood yet," said the banker.
"The ripple effect is really marking the start of the next big round of consolidation."
Vodafone said roughly half the money from Project Spring would go to mobile networks in Europe and elsewhere. It aims to expand 4G coverage to more than 90 percent of the population by 2017 in its five main European markets Germany, brown hermes belt replica Britain, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Up to a quarter of the cash will be spent on investing in services for businesses, such as cloud computing, improving its stores, both bricks and mortar and online, and on modernizing its customer support systems, the company said.
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The remainder of the money will be spent on improving high speed broadband, the latest sign of how Vodafone has redirected its focus from mobile to fixed line services.
In June, Vodafone agreed to buy Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, for 7.7 billion euros to help defend itself against mounting competition in its most important market.
Colao said Vodafone would continue to take a market by market approach on whether to buy fixed line assets, build them alone or with partners, or keep renting capacity from competitors.
Bankers have said Vodafone could spend heavily on further acquisitions with the proceeds from the Verizon sale, such as Italy's Fastweb, which is owned by Swisscom, and Spanish cable operator Ono.
Colao played down such talk. "We have no intention to throw money away so we will be disciplined. The decision is not an Hermes belts replica paris emotional one if buying assets is too expensive then we will build them."
Vodafone spent 6.3 billion pounds on network investment in its last fiscal year, so the three year uptick does represent a significant new effort for the group. But according to Bernstein Research, Vodafone's capital expenditure to sales ratio, the industry metric used to compare investment levels, has slightly trailed the average of European telecom operators since 2007.
With Project Spring, Vodafone's fake hermes mens belt network investments will fake hermes black belt be higher than those of rivals. Bernstein analysts said some is catch up spending for the last two years when the British group had a 13 percent capex to sales ratio versus an industry average of 15 16 percent.
PARIS/LONDON Vodafone's plan to boost investment in broadband and superfast mobile networks after its $130 billion deal with Verizon could force its European competitors to increase their own spending and even prompt further deal making.
Under its "Project Spring", Vodafone plans to raise its capital expenditures by 6 billion pounds ($9 billion) over three financial years to improve network quality for customers in Europe and emerging markets such as India and South Africa.
Strong growth in data consumption by smartphones, tablets and other devices means network quality is becoming more important in the fight to win and keep customers.
With that in mind, Vodafone decided to plough some of the proceeds from the sale of its 45 percent in Verizon Wireless into infrastructure. But the bulk of the windfall $84 billion will be handed to shareholders with the rest to pay down debt.
The move is also a sign that Chief Executive Vittorio Colao is betting the sector will benefit from softer regulation from the European Commission after it spent years forcing down roaming and other types of mobile call fees.
EU telecoms chief Neelie Kroes is expected to unveil a plan on September 11 to create a single market for telecom services as part an effort to boost competitiveness and help Europe catch up with the United States and Asia in mobile and broadband.
"The commission is getting clearly more pro investment and understands that some of its past decisions were not helpful," Colao said on a call with analysts on Tuesday.
Promising to provide more details of the financial returns from Project Spring in November, Colao said the group's big competitors were also likely to increase network investments.
"With the advent of 4G mobile, there is a window for number one or two players in each market to spring ahead and put more space between us and smaller players," he said.
"The operators with bigger shoulders will follow us, while the smaller ones, or the ones who are more financially constrained, may not be able to."The pressure from a stronger Vodafone is likely to be toughest for Telefonica in Spain, Germany, and Britain and Telecom Italia in Italy. Both groups have high levels of debt that they have been trying to pay down.
Germany, in particular, is likely to be a battlefield. Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom each have about 34 percent of mobile service revenue, and fourth placed Telefonica has agreed to buy third placed KPN.
Niek Jan van Damme, head of Deutsche Telekom's German operations, told Reuters on Tuesday that he expected Vodafone to plough more money into Germany, although it remained to be seen how profitable that would be.
"We will have to decide whether we have to do something," he said, adding that he sees further consolidation in Europe ahead.
A sector banker predicted that Project Spring would pressure other telcos to raise investments and spur them to consolidate, provided European antitrust regulators permit such deals.
Regulators are now examining consolidation deals, which risk hitting consumers with higher prices by reducing the number of operators, proposed by Hutchison Whampoa in Ireland and Telefonica in Germany.
The Vodafone deal and its ramped up network investments have "significant ramifications for the sector that have not been fully understood yet," said the banker.
"The ripple effect is really marking the start of the next big round of consolidation."
Vodafone said roughly half the money from Project Spring would go to mobile networks in Europe and elsewhere. It aims to expand 4G coverage to more than 90 percent of the population by 2017 in its five main European markets Germany, brown hermes belt replica Britain, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Up to a quarter of the cash will be spent on investing in services for businesses, such as cloud computing, improving its stores, both bricks and mortar and online, and on modernizing its customer support systems, the company said.
HIGH SPEED
The remainder of the money will be spent on improving high speed broadband, the latest sign of how Vodafone has redirected its focus from mobile to fixed line services.
In June, Vodafone agreed to buy Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, for 7.7 billion euros to help defend itself against mounting competition in its most important market.
Colao said Vodafone would continue to take a market by market approach on whether to buy fixed line assets, build them alone or with partners, or keep renting capacity from competitors.
Bankers have said Vodafone could spend heavily on further acquisitions with the proceeds from the Verizon sale, such as Italy's Fastweb, which is owned by Swisscom, and Spanish cable operator Ono.
Colao played down such talk. "We have no intention to throw money away so we will be disciplined. The decision is not an Hermes belts replica paris emotional one if buying assets is too expensive then we will build them."
Vodafone spent 6.3 billion pounds on network investment in its last fiscal year, so the three year uptick does represent a significant new effort for the group. But according to Bernstein Research, Vodafone's capital expenditure to sales ratio, the industry metric used to compare investment levels, has slightly trailed the average of European telecom operators since 2007.
With Project Spring, Vodafone's fake hermes mens belt network investments will fake hermes black belt be higher than those of rivals. Bernstein analysts said some is catch up spending for the last two years when the British group had a 13 percent capex to sales ratio versus an industry average of 15 16 percent.