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Considered by everyone the spiritual home of The Warehouse Project, Store Street became the base for the annual WHP season in 2007.
Considered by everyone the spiritual home of The Warehouse Project, Store Street became the base for the annual WHP season in 2007. Over five years, the former air-raid shelter beneath Piccadilly Station came to represent the spirit of The Warehouse Project – a cavernous space, its dual personality as office worker car...
The era of low interest rates will last for at least another 20 years, despite gently rising official borrowing costs in the coming years, one of the Bank of England’s leading policymakers has forecast.
In a valedictory interview before leaving Threadneedle Street’s monetary policy committee (MPC) at the end of the month, Ian McCafferty said structural changes in the global economy meant UK borrowers and savers should get used to interest rates being “significantly” below the 5% average in the 10 years leading up to t...
McCafferty said some of the factors that had resulted in global interest rates declining since the 1980s – including weak productivity and the build-up of savings by the baby-boomer generation – would eventually go into reverse. “It is too much to say never, that we won’t ever go back. But there is a 20-year horizon un...
The long-term trend in global interest rates has an impact on the level of borrowing costs deemed necessary by the MPC to keep inflation in check and helps explain why official borrowing costs since early 2009 have been lower than at any time since the Bank was founded in 1694.
McCafferty said that while consumers and businesses should now be braced for further increases in their borrowing costs following last week’s increase, they would be limited and gradual. “Interest rates are going to be significantly below the 5% average in the first 10 years (1997-2007) of the MPC,” he said.
uncertainty caused by Brexit had affected businesses far more than consumers and was causing investment to be weaker than otherwise would be the case.
McCafferty said that despite the “potentially huge risks” from Brexit, the Bank would need to respond to evidence that the lowest unemployment rate in more than 40 years was creating widespread skill shortages.
McCafferty said the City was currently pencilling in two interest rate rises in the next two years but that the increases would probably be “front-end loaded”.
He added that the unusual amount of uncertainty – mainly associated with Brexit – meant it was impossible to be definitive about the timing of future rate rises but foresaw “another couple in the next 18 months or two years. I don’t think that’s unreasonable as a rule of thumb”.
In March McCafferty was one of the first MPC members to vote for the Bank to raise rates from the emergency level of 0.5% reached during the depths of the financial crisis. Earlier this month the committee unanimously backed a tightening of policy.
The outgoing MPC member said that previously skill shortages were restricted to skilled occupations, but had now spread to unskilled sectors as well.
Despite the steady fall in unemployment as the economy has recovered from its worst recession since the second world war, wage inflation has been modest and earnings are currently growing at an annual rate of 2.5%.
The Bank is forecasting earnings growth to accelerate to 3.25% in 2019, but McCafferty said that if labour demand continued rising at its current pace there was a chance that wage inflation would go higher. “It might creep up towards 4%-ish,” he said.
Some City commentators have speculated that one reason behind the Bank’s decision to raise rates to 0.75% was the MPC’s desire to provide itself with more firepower in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal next spring.
However, savers have barely benefited from last week’s 0.25% rate hike. While the high street lenders, including Lloyds, Halifax, and Nationwide have raised mortgage rates by the full quarter point, many savings account holders are seeing rises of just 0.1%.
HSBC and Barclays have raised mortgage rates without yet announcing any increases for savers, with just one of the more than 100 banks and building societies – the tiny Beverley building society – promising to give savers the full 0.25% hike.
Instead banks are using the rate rise to widen profit margins, with RBS projecting that higher interest rates will boost its income by £300m by 2020.
The word Kumari literally means “virgin” in Nepali. These living goddesses are young, pre-pubescent girls who are considered to be incarnations of the Hindu goddess of power, Kali. They live a sheltered life until they reach puberty, and are worshipped in Nepal by both Hindus and Buddhists.
In October 2010, at age 9, Samita Bajracharya became Kumari of Patan. Photographer Narendra Shrestha followed Samita's time as Kumari through her retirement in 2014, documenting her reintegration into a normal childhood.
In October 2010, 9-year-old Samita Bajracharya became Nepal's new living goddess of Patan city. Samita was chosen as the new Kumari of Patan after former Kumari, Chanira Bajracharya, reached puberty -- when girls are considered ritually unclean. Young Buddhist girls from Kathmandu's Newar community chosen as "living go...
Samita reads a course book by candle light during a load shedding in 2011. She is pictured at Kumari Ghar, the private residence of the living goddess. As Kumari, Samita could no longer go to school, play outside or touch her friends, all of which are considered to make her ritually impure.
Samita sits on the traditional throne of Kumari as she awaits visitors during a traditional Matya festival at Ratnakar Mahavihar in Patan. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Buddhists will come to worship her, be blessed by her and bring her offerings.
Samita looks outside the window of her room at Kumari Ghar. After becoming Kumari, Samita was restricted from going outside of her residence, appearing outside only during different Jatras (or festivals) nine times a year as a guest. She was also banned from going to school or having outside friends.
Purna Shova Bajracharya, Samita's mother, carries her daughter to a festival procession in Patan, Nepal, in 2011. As a living goddess, a Kumari's feet can never touch the ground, so her Kumarimi (or caretakers) must carry her everywhere, as well as attend to all of her other needs.
Samita is worshipped by devotees during a festival in Patan City. People leave offerings of money in return for a blessing.
Samita places Tika (red powder) on the forehead of an elderly woman during the last day of Nepal's longest and most important festival, Dashain, in Lalitpur, Nepal, in 2012. The festival is held in honor of the goddess Durga, and commemorates the victory of gods over demons.
Samita sits with her father Kul Ratna Bajracharya, mother Purna Shova and elder brother Sabin at Kumari Ghar.
Samita receives a third eye on her forehead from her mother prior the procession to attend the Rato Machindranath chariot festival, also known as Bhoto Jatra, in Jwalakhel, located at the outskirts of Kathmandu, in 2013. The festival is considered to bring rain, good harvest, prosperity and good luck. It is mainly cele...
Samita reached puberty in March 2014. After completing 12 days of the Newari ritual Gufa, a marriage ceremony with the Sun god, Samita goes to the Bagmati River, unties her hair and washes the painted third eye on her forehead. This ritual represents the end of Samita as a living goddess.
After retiring from her post as Kumari and returning to a normal life, Samita is allowed to attend normal classes at St. Xavier School in Patan. Although the transition period is a challenge for any former Kumari, Samita is able to adapt to a normal daily life. For the first time, Samita attends school, has friends and...
Samita carries her sarod, an Indian classical music instrument, on the way to her first-ever public performance in May 2014. Samita enjoys playing sarod classical music, which she has been learning from Nepal's famous musician Suresh Raj Bajracharya. Unlike her life as Kumari, Samita is able to walk freely through the ...
A postcard of Samita as Kumari is kept for sale at a tourist shop in Thamel, Kathmandu.
Samita attends a class at St. Xavier School. Per tradition, active Kumari are considered to be omniscient, and thus receive no education as children. Once she becomes mortal, however, ex-Kumari are allowed to reintegrate into the modern education system, and attend school.
Samita visits the white monastery with her family in Kathmandu. Samita could not walk properly after she retired as Kumari because for the previous four years, she had to be carried, as a Kumari's feet can never touch the ground. It took almost one month for Samita to gain confidence when interacting with people, and t...
The BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class are titans among small compact luxury cars and still sell in massive numbers.
The C-Class is one of our favorites thanks to its elegant style and impressive powertrains.
The 3-Series is new for 2019; we’ll report back once we’ve driven it.
The Audi A4 isn’t far behind and impresses with its available tech and sharp looks.
The ATS is aged and not long for showrooms.
Same goes for the Lexus IS, we’re not as sold on its base turbo-4.
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Hackers are always inventing new back doors and methods of breaching data, but a recently discovered bug appears to be more critical than most.
Nicknamed "the Heartbleed Bug," the new security flaw enables an attacker to steal secure content and the encryption keys that protect that data, according to new reports. The Heartbleed Bug essentially does this by tricking secure servers — which handle encrypted data — into spitting out chunks of unencrypted data.
Secure servers are often used to store personal information. For example, this could include the encryption keys used to transmit your credit card number in the form of an unbreakable code when you make an online purchase.
An encryption key is a string of code that replaces plain text (such as the numbers and letters used in bank account numbers and passwords) while it's being transmitted between servers. This ensures that hackers can't read your sensitive information. For instance, encryption could translate a message as simple as "Hell...
The Heartbleed Bug is specifically detrimental because it not only allows the attacker to crack these codes and read the protected data as if it were plain text, but it enables hackers to store the encryption keys as well. Once an attacker has the keys, he or she may be able to bypass security checks in your Web browse...
The bug specifically affects "OpenSSL" — a hub that stores encryption keys used by a very large portion of the Internet's traffic. Open source Web servers that use OpenSSL account for 66% of sites on the Web, according to data from Netcraft's April 2014 Web Server Study.
The OpenSSL Project issued a security advisory on its website April 7. Any system running a version of OpenSSL from the past two years could be at risk, TechCrunch reports.
You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly. OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS (transport layer security) implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your company's site, commercial site, hobby site, site you install software from...
We have tested some of our own services from the attacker's perspective. We attacked ourselves from outside, without leaving a trace. Without using any privileged information or credentials we were able to steal from ourselves the secret keys used for our X.509 certificates [a standard cryptographic key], user names an...
The Heartbleed issue was originally spotted by Neel Mehta of Google Security and the team at Codenomicon. OpenSSL has since issued an emergency software update to address the bug.
Japanese game companies now make more money then electronics companies. Will video games save the economy?
In a recent newsletter, Gerhard Fasol, head of Eurotechnology Japan, points out that the Japanese games sector is booming--with the combined net annual income of Japan's top nine game companies overtaking the combined net income of Japan's top 19 electrical giants.
Game companies such as Nintendo are thriving through the global recession while stalwarts such as Panasonic and Sony struggle (Sony's diversification and PlayStation sales haven't helped recently) with huge corporate hierarchies and a dearth of new "must have" products.
What's interesting about the growth of Japanese game play is that it's mainly on consoles and handhelds (with the Nintendo DSi blurring the line), whereas in the U.S. the growth is on mobile devices and online.
Online games grew 22 percent year over year in the U.S., while console game sales are expected to drop by as much as 20 percent year over year.
What happens next in Japan is still a mystery. Corporate behemoths have been slow to change and are severely weighed down by huge ranks of bureaucracy. The U.S. style of slash-and-burn economics isn't likely to fit for most of the Japanese electronics manufacturers, so they'll be forced to make changes in some manner t...
In the meantime game companies and software that enhances existing experiences, like doing even more with mobile phones, will have the upper hand on electronic sales for the foreseeable future.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (APP): A new special human rights report released by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has concluded that the July 23 attack on a large, peaceful demonstration in Kabul not only targeted civilians but also was a serious violation of international humanitarian law, which...
“The attack appears, disturbingly, to have deliberately targeted persons belonging to a specific ethnic and religious community,” said UNAMA in a news release today, announcing the release of the report Attack on a Peaceful Demonstration in Kabul, 23 July 2016.
“The fundamental human rights of all Afghans must be respected, including the rights of religious and ethnic communities,” it added.
The UNAMA report reviews the context of the 23 July demonstration, organized by a body known as the “Enlightening Movement,” the planning and preparedness of Afghan Security Forces, their behaviour during the demonstration and immediate response to the attack and its aftermath.
It also raises, where relevant, human rights concerns for authorities.
The attack was the deadliest single civilian casualty incident in the country since UNAMA started its civilian casualties documentation in 2009.
and killed by security forces.
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or Da’esh) had claimed responsibility for the attack, employing language that advocated religious hatred and violence. Almost all of the casualties in the attack were male and from the Hazara community, the Mission said.
In the news release Tuesday, UNAMA also noted that the report has been released amid mounting concern at an emerging pattern of sectarian violence attributed to ISIL.
claiming responsibility for the attack in Kabul using language similar to that used in the claim for the 23 July attack.
The Mission further said that its new report also offered recommendations on the respect for fundamental human rights of all Afghans, including the rights of religious and ethnic communities, as well as the need for the completion and implement of a strategy to prevent violent extremism.
The action might have been tense on court but Toni Collette and Eric Bana looked to be having the time of their lives in the Australian Open stands.
The famous Australian faces were among the celebrity contingent turned out to watch Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic go head-to-head in the Australian Open 2015 male's single final on Saturday.
Deliver Us From Evil actor Eric, 46, appeared to thoroughly enjoy the heated game between the British tennis player and the Serbian hunk at the Melbourne Park in Victoria as he and his wife Rebecca Gleeson couldn't take their eyes off the action-packed court all evening.
Tennis enthusiasts: Eric Bana and his wife Rebecca Gleeson can't take their eyes of the action-packed court as they arrive at Melbourne Park for the Australian Open live final on Saturday.
The handsome star and his beautiful spouse looked quite the part as they opted to wear matching black ensembles to the game, with Eric slick clad in a suit and Rebecca going for a long, sleeveless, frock.
On a number of occasions it seemed like Eric was attempting to explain the rules of the game to his wife, whom he married in 1997 and has two children Klaus, 15, and Sophia, 12, with.
The Bana's were sat directly behind actress Toni, 42, who was accompanied by a female friend.
With her newly dyed crop of pixie hair, the Muriel's Wedding star looked chic in a sleeveless black ensemble and a leather jacket as she got engrossed in the en court action.
At one point the Australian talent enjoyed a brief tete-a-tete with Eric, who appeared to be entertaining Toni as she threw her head back uproariously in laughter, while he looked amused.
However, as the competition became even more tense, it seemed the Little Miss Sunshine actress couldn't bear to watch any more as she put her hands in front of her eyes, while Eric stared at the screen with a serious expression plastered across his face.
Meanwhile, also in attendance was Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting, 40, who arrived at the Open with his gorgeous wife Rianna.
Ricky, who was dressed in a grey suit and tie, seemed relaxed as he sipped on his alcoholic beverage while he sat and watched the game unravel before his eyes.
Another famous sportsman to grace the court with his presence was professional golfer Adam Scott.
The tanned hunk, 34, who comes from Adelaide, looked dapper in a crisp white shirt, which he'd unbuttoned at the collar, and a navy blue suit jacket.
It wasn't just Australian stars who attended the Open on Saturday as One Direction singer Niall Horan, 21, was also spotted at the match supporting fellow Brit, Andy.
The Harmful Implications of "Put Your Game on Switch"
July 16, 2018, 11:11 a.m.
With so many games that get announced, I hear increasingly more people say "put it on Switch". So many people who keep tweeting developers with "you really shot yourself in the foot by not releasing on Switch". It's not just the Switch either; I know I've been guilty of this in the past, refusing to buy games because t...
A lot of the time, the initial launch on PC or as a console exclusive helps them fund the development for other platforms and also, y'know, their food and rent. So, if you see a game that's really interesting but isn't on the platform you like, don't tweet @ the developers saying you'll only buy on so and so platform. ...
If you can afford it, buy it anyway and wait for it to come out on the other thing I bought Stardew Valley on PC in 2016 and played a bit, immediately stopped when they announced a Switch version, but didn't refund the game. I subsequently also stopped playing the Switch version when they announced it was coming to the...
Finally, language is important, too. When you talk to developers on twitter or email them, maybe try to be kind. Tell them how interesting you find their game more emphatically than you tell them how much you wish it was multi-platform. Nobody likes to hear you won't pay for their hard work because it isn't on your pla...

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