Apr 21

Whatever bad ideas you have about the rich

Our professional association has recognized that improving customer experiences with clear user interfaces as an industry best practice. This effort shows our commitment to those best practices.Yet there’s an ambivalence hidden inside these stories. Cinderellas are tricky; they are privileged by birth and oppressed by circumstance, poverty-stricken drudge and bootstrapping success story, worker and queen. These heroines are worse off than you, which makes you sympathize with them, but also better off than you, which makes you want to be them.We understand the ugliness of power now — whether through the Trumps, or the revelations about Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey…

the news is no better from the evangelical left.

Evangelicalism in America is nearing extinction due to the movement’s devotion to politics at the expense of its original calling to share the gospel, according to Mark Galli, former editor-in-chief of Christianity Today.
“The evangelicalism that transformed the world is, for all practical purposes, dying if not already dead,” Galli said during the “Conversations that Matter” webinar hosted by Baptist News Global Oct. 8. He spoke with BNG Executive Director and Publisher Mark Wingfield in an hour-long webinar that is available for viewing on BNG’s YouTube channel.
The over-identification with politics isn’t just an issue with white conservative evangelicals, he added. “Evangelicals…

she’s begun to grow weary of her position

After hours of binging television and wine, she almost forgets she’s due to pick up one of the junior partners. She receives a DUI at four in the afternoon. She is called into the senior partner’s office. He is furious.Downstairs, she deals with the junior partners of the firm. There’s Callie, the perfectionist: Every sandwich must be cut into triangles. Then there’s Andrew, the tyrant. His lunch order is always a PB&J, crusts cut off. What an asshole.“Removing the owner’s ability to replace or upgrade memory on a Mac Mini seems like a net loss for the owner and a…

We’ve talked a lot of finance shop in this article

Hundreds of thousands of farmers have laid siege to Delhi for the past few days

It has also resulted in political wrangling — with opposition politicians using the image to criticise the way the protesters are being treated and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming — falsely — that the farmer was not hit.
choking almost all the entry points to the national capital.
They are protesting against a recent law that they say is against their interests. The government says the reforms, which open the farming sector to private players, will not hurt farmers.
Unconvinced, thousands of them have marched upon Delhi, where they were met by barricades at the border.
As they arrived in…

This global network will be tested as vaccines begin making the journey from warehouse to airports and cargo terminals

Less than nine months ago, the World Health Organization officially declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 a global pandemic. Several biopharmaceutical companies had already begun to develop experimental vaccines for COVID-19.
Here’s what this milestone means — and doesn’t mean.
IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.
What’s happening
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that United Airlines had initiated charter flights to transport BNT162b2, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX). Over the weekend, other news organizations reported confirmation by the Federal Aviation Administration of the “first mass air shipment” of a COVID vaccine.
Doses of BNT162b2 are being…