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Rather, it’s a natural extension of what she does during a set-and a reminder that, despite her prolific discography, she’s only 29 years old. For Amelie, sending emoji-studded messages to fans isn’t a conscious attempt to dispersing the aura of mystery that has traditionally surrounded techno artists. Scroll through the effusive comments on her Instagram and you’ll find many are from Amelie herself maybe sent from an altitude of 36,000-feet, en route to pilot another all-night techno odyssey at London’s Fabric or Hasselt’s Labyrinth Club. ![]() Somewhere between releasing her debut EP in 2016, launching a club night named for its tour de force titular track “Exhale,” founding her own label imprint Lenske, and sending thousands of sweaty fans into other dimensions with her relentless live sets, the Belgian wunderkind always makes time for the fans. ![]() Ahead of Time Warp’s 2019 New York City edition, she tells Document why it’s all about friendship, fans, and family.Īmelie Lens is one of the most phenomenal techno DJs and producers to have emerged in the past decade. In just a few years, Amelie Lens has become one of the world’s most in-demand techno DJs, and she shows no sign of slowing. The artist spoke to Document about how she balances 8-hour sets, co-owning a label, and raving with her grandma ahead of the New York Time Warp event. ![]() ![]() ![]() They just have such a satisfying consistency, and biting into one is an odd new form of pleasure. There are some veggies in the mix, but we found the peas to be the best of the bunch here. It’s a little bit greasy (which we expect from low-end fried rice), and it has a nice flavor to it. But the bites of this meal that contained the all-powerful goop were quite lovely in a guilty-pleasure sort of way.Įven without the goop, though, the rice portion is actually pretty good. It sort of clumps up at one edge of the meal, so even after stirring, we weren’t able to get an even mix. The package calls it a black pepper sauce, but to us it’s just a glob of goop. The majority of the flavor, though, comes from the goop. It’s soft and rubbery in some places, and gristly in others, but the flavor is halfway decent. What is surprising is that we still actually kind of like it. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce (#1), Olive Garden Lasagna Classico (#2), King's Hawaiian Original Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (#3), Chipotle Mexican Grill Carnitas (#5).The beef portion of this is remarkably school-lunch-like, which isn’t surprising, to be honest. This recipe was our #4 most popular in 2020. And I've included a bunch of step photos to help you along so you can serve a picture-perfect dish.Ĭheck out my recipe for Pei Wei Better Orange Chicken here. This hack will make two large meal-size entrées-just like you get at the restaurant-which can easily be split into four more modest side servings. When they're done, give the noodles a rinse under cold water and they’ll hold until you need them. Then prepare them for stir fry by steeping them in a bowl of hot water rather than in a pan of boiling water on the stovetop as may be suggested on the package. The noodles at Pei Wei are thin, so grab the skinniest rice noodles on the shelf. When soaked in the salty sauce the natural aminos contribute fantastic umami goodness to the chicken, and when you cook it with moist heat as described in the steps below it will come out fork-tender and juicy. ![]() The secret marinade here includes fish sauce Thailand's MSG. To duplicate Pei Wei Pad Thai at home, you'll first brine the chicken so it doesn't dry out as white meat tends to do. The secret sauce is perfectly sweet, sour, salty, and lightly spicy, and the chicken is moist, tender, and filled with great flavor. chains, Pei Wei’s tasty take on the dish comes in at the top. ![]() If you’re ranking Pad Thai served at U.S. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce (#1), Olive Garden Lasagna Classico (#2), King's Hawaiian Original Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (#3), Chipotle Mexican Grill Carnitas (#5). But rather than assemble the dish in a wok over a high-flame fast stove like they do at the restaurant, we’ll prepare the sauce and chicken separately, then toss them with fresh orange wedges just before serving.īy the way, Pei Wei Better Orange Chicken goes very well with white or brown rice, so don’t forget to make some. Pei Wei claims its orange chicken is prepared each day from scratch with chicken that is never frozen, so we’ll craft our clone the same way. The name “Wei Better Orange Chicken” is a competitive callout to Panda Express's signature orange chicken, which is made with pre-breaded and frozen chicken. Obviously, a clone is needed for this one, stat. Chang’s China Bistro targets the lunch crowd with a smaller menu that features bento boxes, bowls, and small plates. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some cons to using a video transfer service to convert 8mm tapes to digital without a camcorder no equipment to maintain – if you do buy a camcorder or tape player, or even if you did find your old camcorder chances are it could use a good cleaning and may or may not play your tapes back correctly without eating them.online sharing – most video transfer services offer a way to store your videos on their secure servers so you can send links to friends and family for sharing and playback.professional quality video transfer – most video transfer services use professional-grade equipment to convert your videos resulting in the best playback.8mm camcorders are no longer manufactured, nor are 8mm tape deck VCRs so you need to look for used marketplaces like eBay for used equipment that is at least a decade old. 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Use a Video Transfer Service: this method means not playing the tapes yourself, but instead using a video transfer service that converts them to a digital format that you can keep on your computer or on DVDs, and makes them far easier to share.Do not confuse 8mm VCRs with a VHS VCR, which is what most households had back in the 80s and 90s With an 8mm, Hi8, or Digital8 VCR: there are VCRs that are built specifically for the 8mm format all of which should play back an 8mm tape. ![]() With an 8mm or compatible camcorder: you can play back 8mm tapes in camcorders that are 8mm (Video 8), Hi8, and most but not all Digital8 camcorders.There are 3 ways to watch or play 8mm tapes, we’ll discuss each in further detail. Can a Digital8 Camcorder Play 8mm Tapes.Can I Convert or Play 8mm Tapes Without A Camcorder?.How To Convert 8mm Tapes To Digital or DVD.Play 8mm Tapes Using an 8mm VCR or Hi8 Tape Deck.Play 8mm Tapes Using a Video Transfer Service. ![]() ![]() ![]() The user-friendly dashboard provides features such as invoice tracking, payment tracking, sales tracking, bank feeds, receipt management, automated statements, and payroll liabilities. Upgrading to QuickBooks Enterprise 2021 version provides users with a range of features necessary for managing various accounting and bookkeeping activities. 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![]() ![]() Mariscal is where the action is in Quito and where the crowds are. In addition, my experience of Quito so far is that it is no different to any other big city in the world from a safety perspective. Giving up wifi on your phone for 5 minutes of the day in a coffee shop is so worth it for avoiding the worry of having it stolen. ![]() Since doing this, I have felt so much more confident walking around, and I'm enjoying it so much more. Clearly I'm working on the basis that the biggest risk is petty theft here, but I understand violent crime against tourists is rare. I can then return to the hotel where all the things I need are. Now, if I'm mugged, they can have my camera and the money I have in my pocket (obviously not an excessive amount) and to be honest I'm not too bothered. Leave the iPhone, iPad, wallet with cards in, and passport back at the hotel/ hostel. The solution is really simple (for me at least, I appreciate others won't be as sad as I am with dependencies on the Internet). I'll be open enough to admit that I'd be pretty lost without my phone now as I'd have no idea how to book things, read about things, read reviews which scare me etc. In fact the Internet didn't really exist. In the good old days, we didn't have iPhones to be stolen. Despite a natural reduction in confidence as the years go by, I was wondering why I was finding myself so paranoid about being mugged / the possibility of safety issues all the time. I have been travelling before, but not in this way for a long time (previous "longer" trip was through Mexico in 2002). So, can't give them a 1 because I eventually did get a clean bed, warm shower & standard breakfast, but clearly, despite the other good reviews, there is some risk that they might let you down.About me: 33, male, solo traveller, slightly spooked out reading various things about safety etc.in Quito. Odd as well was that they then had me return to Mariscal Sucre in the morning for breakfast. I mean, it was fine, perhaps even better than Mariscal Sucre, but seemed odd. And then, strangely enough, they had me stay at the hotel next door. Despite all this the hotel would not make any redress of this issue. No one was at the desk & it took my taxi driver searching around for 5-10 minutes & finally going to the hotel next door before they found someone to help us. There I found another guest from my same flight who had suffered the same issue & had to pay for a taxi. When I got to the airport no one was waiting for me & I had to take a taxi, paying $10 for the 5 minute ride to the hotel. Then, when I saw that my stop-over was going to be delayed, I sent them a message (~6 hrs before arriving). Before leaving I wrote & confirmed my flight details for pickup & they responded. I was arriving late (10:30-ish) and they offered free pickup & free breakfast. 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Ultimately, customers want clothing that is made well and made to last. Katie: As in Food, great value in Clothing & Home means more than just price, it also means great cost per wear, hand-me-down quality, the confidence that it will fit and also wash well. Wanted them to have confidence in the value of our uniform. Schoolwear is an essential purchase for millions of families, and we In Clothing, as the market leaders in Back-to-School season, we took the decision to hold prices on uniforms last summer. Customers have noticed the difference, with M&S price comparison videos going viral on TikTok. In Food, alongside our everyday Remarksable ranges we launched “Price Locks” on over 100 customer favourites to give them certainty on the products they love to shop. We wanted to protect this and invested again in our value.Īcross both businesses we have focused on protecting prices on the products that matter most to customers. Of course, at M&S value isn’t just about price – it means never compromising on the quality standards our customers expect. Over the last three years we have started to change value perceptions of M&S thanks to the investment we have made in price – particularly in Food. Stuart: We know value has been the single most important factor for customers when deciding where to shop. It was clear that Christmas was a particular pinch point, so we gave a £250 giftcard to store and junior colleagues to provide just a little extra help towards their celebrations. ![]() With input from our colleague listening schemes and BIG – our colleague representative group – we introduced free sanitary products across all sites and stores and a free meal per shift for colleagues at our Distribution Centre in Castle Donington. We used awareness weeks to make sure colleagues knew about the help available to them – such as our free financial planning workshops and the Unmind mental wellbeing App. We also wanted to offer practical support to our colleagues. Katie: Alongside pay, we have protected front-line roles this year. When combined with pension and benefits, this gives M&S one of the strongest reward packages in retail. In February 2023, we announced a commitment to invest a further £57m in store colleague pay, meaning the hourly rate has increased 20% over the last two years. Throughout 2022/23 we invested over £46m in front-line colleague pay across two separate pay rises, including our first ever Autumn pay review. It was the top concern for our colleagues, and we wanted to do what we could to help ease some of that strain. The most recent ICP results are available for the ICP 2017 cycle, with the ongoing cycle benchmarked to 2021.Stuart: Whether you’ve been running a home or running a business, everyone across the country has felt the pressure of rising costs this year. These data are benchmarked to a reference year for each comparison cycle. PPPs are calculated by the ICP based on the prices of items within a common basket of goods and services and expenditure shares, used as expenditure weights, on groups of items in each of the participating economies. PPP-based comparisons are also less impacted by the potential volatility of market exchange rates. PPP-based comparisons of economic output differ from market exchange rate-based comparisons as the latter do not distinguish between the relative price levels of different items in economies. They provide a measure of what an economy’s local currency can buy in another economy. ![]() PPPs convert different currencies to a common currency and, in the process of conversion, equalize their purchasing power by controlling for differences in price levels between economies. (ii) to convert volume and per capita measures of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure components into a common currency using PPPs. ![]() (i) to produce purchasing power parities (PPPs) and comparable price level indexes (PLIs) for participating economies and It is managed by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), and relies on a partnership of international, regional, sub-regional, and national agencies working under a robust governance framework and following an established statistical methodology. At its forty-seventh session, in March 2016, the UNSC instituted the ICP as a permanent element of the global statistical programme. The International Comparison Program (ICP) is one of the largest, and most enduring, statistical initiatives in the world. About the International Comparison Program (ICP) ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the strong lead woman in Pacific Rim (2013), this test examines the independence of a female character. The second test, the Mako Mori Test, was created to address this short-coming. 2 An intentionally low bar, the Bechdel Test provides a very simple look at representation within a movie, yet some movies fail the Bechdel Test despite having an empowered leading female character. To pass, a movie must (1) have two named female characters who (2) talk to each other (3) about something other than a man. The first and more widely known is the Bechdel Test. For that very reason, we thought it might be revealing to apply two well-known internet tests to the women in these films and gauge how these tests relate to movie ratings. With one exception ( My Sister’s Keeper), none of the fifty films in our study focus on what used to be called “women’s issues.” Perhaps that fact situates women in an analogous position with genetics in these blockbusters-they are there, the audience notices them from time to time, but viewers generally do not have to pay close attention to them to grasp their role in the plot. By registering at the level of conventions, they often inflect other conventional aspects of the representational world, particularly those involving biology, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. After more than a hundred years of cinematic depictions of genetics, 1 popular films can count on genetic motifs, however speculative or scientifically inaccurate, to serve the needs of characterization and plot with little explanation. Still, the presumption that audiences will accept genetic engineering or mutant powers as the launching pad for the action-borne out by the success of these works at the box office-is telling. With rare exceptions, genetics is merely part of the premise of the film, not an explicit theme or subject matter. A few are dramas set in the contemporary world ( My Sister’s Keeper ), comedies ( Austin Powers in Goldmember ), or thrillers ( The Bourne Legacy ). Nearly half of these films are blockbusters based on comic book superheroes, followed closely by science fiction films in the vein of Jurassic World (2015), Star Wars (2002), and Star Trek (2002). Independence within the context of conventional structure nicely defines the new position of female gender roles in twenty-first century popular cinema.Īs a contribution to our project’s goal of understanding the representation of genetics in contemporary culture, we decided to evaluate the roles provided for women in the fifty highest grossing films of the last two decades that feature genetic content. Murphy’s story begins and ends with her place in a family setting, situating her firmly in a gendered social role and the reproductive cycle, despite her character having many other defining features. In the course of the movie, however, she earns her place as an independent heroine and an empowered woman, eventually becoming the matriarch of her own extended family. ![]() Murphy’s role in Interstellar (2014) began as a vulnerable child, whose main purpose in the plot was to complicate her father’s decision to leave Earth. Almost a hundred years later, his daughter, Murphy Cooper (Jessica Chastain), has forged her own path and saved humanity from extinction, and is now immortalized in the name of Cooper Space Station. The Cooper Space Station was named for the daughter he left behind on Earth. Near the end of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014), Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) wakes up on Cooper Space Station, proud of having completed his decades long interstellar mission and honored that a space station had been named after him. Oliver, “Blade Runner 3.” One in a series of works inspired by a comparison of the 1982 version of Blade Runner to the 2017 sequel, examining how our perceptions of genetic privacy and identity have changed over time. As she and Becket improve their drifting and fighting, they eventually work together to fight incoming Kaijus and blow up The Breach using Gipsy Danger as the bomb.Kendra H. This prompts Mori to remember the traumatic childhood experience of running away from a Tokyo Kaiju that killed her family, only to then later be saved by the Pentecost-piloted Jaeger. In their first time drifting in Gipsy Danger, Becket relives his past of losing his brother in a Kaiju fight. Pacific Rim, set between 2020 and 2025, requires that Jaeger pilots can mentally link together in a process called " drifting," which she can do naturally with Becket. She becomes a Jaeger pilot upon the insistence of both herself and Becket, much to her father figure Marshal Stacker Pentecost's (Idris Elba) reluctance. Mako Mori is introduced in Pacific Rim at the Hong Kong " Shatterdome," where Jaeger pilots from around the world convene to handle the exponentially increasing Kaiju attacks. ![]() |