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Best FREE VPNs of 2017

By Andrey Doichev|thebestvpn.com   1. WindScribe.com: 10GB/mo Data Cap, 11 Locations What is WindScribe? Windscribe is a Canadian VPN provider founded in 2015. They’re new, but highly respected in different VPN communities like reddit (/vpn/). Windscribe offers you a very generous 10GB (month) bandwidth for you to test them out. If you tweet them out, you’ll receive another 5GB. It’s a lot, as…

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

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There’s a problem with the way we define inequality

By Bryan Lufkin| BBC.com We are failing to look at inequality in the right way, according to researchers who study people’s attitudes to wealth disparity. Haves and have-nots. The 99%. The income gap. The chasm between rich and poor has never mattered more. It’s estimated that the top 1% of the world’s richest people owns 50% of the planet’s wealth. Solving this level of inequality is often held…

Liu Xiaobo: The man China couldn’t erase

By Carrie Gracie|BBCNEWS Activist Liu Xiaobo has died after spending eight years in prison. “There is nothing criminal in anything I have done but I have no complaints.” So stated Liu Xiaobo in court in 2009, and in the eight long prison years between then and now, he refused to recant his commitment to democracy. No wonder China’s leaders are as afraid of him in death as they were in life.…

Government Resources U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services https://www.uscis.gov/ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is the main Federal agency dealing with immigration and refugees in the … More Department of Labor – The Office of Foreign Labor Certification https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/mission.cfm From the department’s web site: OFLC processes labor certification…

Top 5 Things Every Immigrant Should Know Before Heading to the U.S.

immigrationgateway.org| By: Valerie Johnston Immigrating to the U.S. just became a lot harder for many with President Trump’s newly enacted policies. But that doesn’t mean that many millions of people won’t still give it a shot. Here are the top five things that everyone should know before they immigrate to the U.S. You’ll have to pay for your visa. Many immigrants believe that getting married to…

The Dark Town That Built a Giant Mirror

By Linda Geddes|BBCNEWS The inhabitants of Rjukan in southern Norway have a complex relationship with the Sun. “More than other places I’ve lived, they like to talk about the Sun: when it’s coming back, if it’s a long time since they’ve seen the Sun,” says artist Martin Andersen. “They’re a little obsessed with it.” Possibly, he speculates, it’s because for approximately half the year, you can…

腾龙|BBC 哪些英国大学与专业毕业生收入最高？哪些专业毕业生收入还达不到最低工资？ 英国大学的学费一年9000英镑已经打不住了。数所大学从秋季新学年开始追加250英镑。 三年读下来，要欠高街银行或父母银行一屁股债。英国的孩子们和他们的父母要好好掂量。 欧盟之外的海外留学生，要掏数倍于英国孩子的钱上同样的大学，学同样的专业。要来英国读大学的中国孩子们和他们的父母，更要仔细斟酌。 (more…)

The financial gamble of working abroad

By Alina Dizik|BBC.com In January last year, Rebecca Self found her salary had dropped by almost 30% pretty much overnight. It wasn’t from a demotion, cost-cutting or a corporate restructure – Self’s pay packet was slashed by a shift in currency markets, an issue that affects many expats working around the world. Self is a leadership consultant based in Zurich, Switzerland. An American expat, she…

Grant SD card access on Android 5.0

An app attempting to write to the SD on an Android 5.0 device will prompt you to grant access. Then select the card. Don’t navigate down into any subfolder. You MUST select the top-level root folder of the SD card. After tapping the “Select SD card” button you should be back in the app. The app double checks if it now indeed can write to the SD card. You should see a message about the check…

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Soros (/ˈsɔːroʊs/[3] or /ˈsɔːrɒs/; Hungarian: Soros György; Hungarian: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American business magnate,[4][5] investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Jewish-Hungarian ancestry and holds dual citizenship (Hungary and the United States).[a] He is chairman of Soros Fund…

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warren Edward Buffett (/ˈbʌfᵻt/; born August 30, 1930)[3] is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world.[4][5][6] Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway,[7] and is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people. He was…

森夏恩·弗林特（Sunshine Flint）|BBC 从古至今，世界上有成千上万种宗教信仰。某些城市与其居民的宗教信仰有着密不可分的联系，充满着神圣的气息。这些城市以其宗教历史、礼拜场所和神圣空间闻名于世，其连结着教友，也吸引着世界各地的信徒和游客。 Image caption 泰国清迈双龙寺（Wat Pha Lat）(图片来源：Sacha Bloor/Getty） 泰国清迈 泰国第二大城市清迈曾是独立的兰那王国首都，这个王 国曾统治着泰国的北部。清迈有成百上千座佛寺，包括著名的契迪龙寺（Wat Chedi Luang）及其损毁的佛塔（或 chedi，顶部），在那里游客用绳子将一桶水提升到佛寺顶部再倒空，就可以得到佛陀的保佑。14 世纪时，素贴山（Doi Suthep mountain）顶上的双龙寺（Wat Phra That Doi…

Picked the wrong career? This five-year plan could help

By Kate Ashford|BBC A significant career change can be overwhelming. This five-year plan could help. Seven years ago, Donna Lubrano was a personal fitness trainer. Today, she teaches business courses for Northeastern University in Massachusetts in the US — but moving to a completely different career certainly wasn’t easy. (more…)

Making a Diamond Purchase

By Alina Dizik|BBC What you need to know Get certified: Certificates from the Gemological Institute of America, American Gem Society and European Gemological Laboratory ensure quality and verify cut, clarity, colour and carat weight. Check the return policy: Not all fine jewellers accept returns because of the potential for diamonds to be replaced with stones of lesser value. Investment quality:…

Can you job-hop without making enemies?

By Elizabeth Garone |BBC A plum position opens up in a different department in your company. You think you’d be the perfect fit and would jump at the opportunity but what will your current manager think? And what if you don’t get it? What message will you be sending? Six experts weigh in below on the pros and cons of applying for a new position in-house. With job-hopping the new norm among…