Sometimes the problems of life can seem so big that it is hard to deal with them all. Some adults get advice when talking with a friend or professional, many teenagers find relief in the form of a simple journal (日志;手账).Generally, journaling is to keep a diary or journal that descr...
Re: "learnt many things about how not to run a company" This is the Japanese way of running a company. Often those who have "competency challenges" are promoted, but with the caveat that they are surrounded by a group of engineers or other similar staff who do know what the hell they...
112 2004 ACAD HumanEcology #The findings were very straightforward, Levitsky says. How much children eat is determined by how much food is put in front of them 113 2012 WEB freakonomics.com #. So here's a question for you: How much value do people who lean green place on being seen le...
Short for “grand”, this refers to $1,000 dollars. Having five G in the bank shouldn’t cause you to worry about cellphone towers, but should result in a celebration for having “dollar dollar bill y’all”. (Not to confuse with G, which is also short for “gangster”, as in “B...
One of us, Victoria Barbary, has worked as Director Communications and Strategy for the IFSWF since 2016. She writes in a personal capacity. Any views expressed here do not represent the IFSWF nor any of its member institutions. 4. The narrative in this section is based in part on a ...
Is a job essential, or could you save hard all summer and live the charmed life of a ‘bum’? For many people, the ultimate dream is the latter: a whole winter to progress their riding and have fun without having to work. All you need to do is save a few grand over the summer,...
business, finance and money (“quid”/ “bucks” as nicknames for pounds and dollars, etc) sports and games (the different meanings of “football”, etc) phrasal verbs and other idioms (the different meanings of “wash up”, etc)
This problem relates to the fact that in all cases the rear wheel has to be built by someone from a bike shop (or yourself) — This is not easy and the spokes (which are now a special size) need to be laced properly and tensioned properly as well. Not many mechanics are proficient ...
Colloquially however, people usually say ‘kuài’ (块) instead of yuán. This is like saying a ‘buck’ in the US or a ‘quid’ in the UK. One yuán is made up of 10 jiǎo (角) or, in spoken Chinese, 10 máo (毛).
First, that the price reported by this agency on its website cannot readily be used to create a systematic global dataset of visa costs because in many cases (although not in all),6 it is systematically overcharged. The discrepancy from the manually collected costs suggests that the agency pro...