A Comfortable Retirement
Chris Colbert has become someone who has labored diligently for decades, saving each penny with the dream of a snug retirement. At 45, he had in the end reached a detail in which he wanted to take a step decrease pass back, lighten up, and enjoy the forestalled surrender cease result of his hard artwork. Chris lived in a serene suburb, spending his days tending to his garden, and studying, and exploring the net.
The Enticing Discovery
One sunny afternoon, even as surfing online, Chris stumbled upon shopping for and selling trading company for Blantomic, a business enterprise promising high-quality returns on cryptocurrency investments. Intrigued by way of th…
Want to preserve fond memories by printing a photo book? Then you should make sure to prepare your pictures so they keep looking stunning when they get printed.
While reduced exposure and brightness are the current trend on social media, dark photos don’t look good in terms of printed photography. Besides, the brighter your image is, the more details are visible in it. In this article, you will find out how to brighten your pictures in post-production. Let’s get down to the step-by-step tutorial right now.
Easy Way to Make Pictures Brighter
Since editing photos on a computer is one of the most common ways to process them, we’ll show you how to correct your shots with a desktop image brightener. It has both basic and pro-grad…
Isabel Chimangeni
LUSAKA, Jan 17 2007 (IPS) – Being pregnant in Africa is like having an unknown disease, says Zambian mother Alice Tembo, referring to many of her compatriots lack of basic knowledge about pregnancy and childbirth.
She has recently given birth without any complications, which is exceptional in a country where the maternal mortality ratio is 728 per 100,000 live births.
However, Zambia s maternal death rate is still lower that the rate for the whole of the sub-Saharan African region, which stood at a shocking 920 per 100,000 live births in 2000 according to the United Nations Statistics Division.
Internationally, sub-Saharan Africa has by far the highest ratio of maternal deaths. It is more than double the rate for the world as a whole, which i…
Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Jun 16 2009 (IPS) – As the annual scrimmage for coveted seats in India s engineering and medical colleges gets underway, what many students dread is the sadistic ritual of ragging or hazing that they expect to undergo at the hands of their seniors.
I know that the Supreme Court has passed directions ordering the government to take steps to curb ragging but I doubt they can be enforced, says prospective engineering student Prahlad Goyal, who hopes to enter one of the several Indian Institutes of Technology.
On May 7 moved by the death of Aman Satya Kachroo, a first-year student at a medical college in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh state following a brutal beating by his seniors the apex court issued orders to all provincial governmen…
Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON, Apr 26 2010 (IPS) – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the future of genetically modified foods and government oversight of that and other environmental issues.
The case, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, revolves around an herbicide-resistant alfalfa, the planting of which has been banned in the U.S. since a federal court prohibited the multinational Monsanto from selling the seeds in 2007.
That decision found that the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not do a thorough enough study of the impacts the GM alfalfa would have on human health and the environment and ordered the agency to do another env…
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MARFA, Texas, U.S., Apr 4 2011 (IPS) – In a nuclear crisis that is becoming increasingly serious, Japan s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is 4,385 times the level permitted by law.
Airborne radiation near the plant has been measured at 4- times government limits.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company that operates the crippled plant, has begun releasing more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water that was used to cool the fuel rods into the ocean while it attempts to find the source of radioactive leaks. The water being released is about 100 times more ra…
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 3 2021 (IPS) – In these times of COVID isolation, social distance get on the nerves of several of us and the effects may be long-lasting, even endemic. Many schoolchildren have interacted and still meet with their teachers through computer networks, while the same phenomenon applies to their contact with others. Technical devices are with an ever-increasing scope becoming an integral part of all communication, teaching, and entertainment, in short – of social interaction. When it comes to education, given all the poor and even harmful educators we are forced to encounter during our lifetime, mechanization of education might be perceived as a step…
Korea is one of the world’s top economies. Yet, behind the success, many feel alienated. Does the recent hit show Squid Game, reflect the underbelly of the society’s success? Credit: Ori Song/Unsplash
Seoul, Nov 16 2021 (IPS) – Immediately after its release, the Squid Game went viral, grabbing the attention of the world s entertainment stage. The grotesque and hyper-violent thriller has reportedly become Netflix s biggest show, the world s most-watched and the most-talked-about streaming entertainment. Is it a case of art imitating life?
The global rise of Korean entertainment is reminiscent of South Korea s rags-to-rich story. The once war-strick…