News Banks to seize defaulterâs funds in other banks Guidelines on the Global Standing Instruction (GSI) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria, has granted banks the right to seize loan defaulters’ money in other banks. According to the apex bank, the GIS guideline was issued to enhance loan recovery in the banking sector and to facilitate an improved credit repayment culture; reduce Non-Performing Loans in the […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
Business News Small Business COBOL Language: Call It A Comeback? Ticker tape in a reader Getty Some of the hottest languages include Python, go lang, Java and Swift. But there is one that seems to never show up on any list: COBOL. The perception is that it is, well, a dinosaur. Yet consider the following about COBOL: It powers about 80% of in-person financial services transactions and 95% […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
Business Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson On The Future Of The Hospitality Industry, Masks, And Furloughs So you think you’ve had a rollercoaster year? Consider the tumultuous times of hospitality leader Arne Sorenson, the president and CEO of Marriott International. On the heels of the purchase and integration of Starwood Hotels and Resorts into the Marriott organization and a period of unprecedented growth for the combined company, Sorenson was diagnosed with […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
Art Looking For Creative Inspiration? Zoom For Free With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright And Screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks In his collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin wrote “I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.” Suzan-Lori Parks Photo by Tammy Shell For more than a decade Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, novelist and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks has been […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
News Top-10 Players For Every NFL Team Potentially Leaked KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – JANUARY 19: Tyreek Hill #10 of the Kansas City Chiefs takes the field before … [+] the AFC Championship Game against the Tennessee Titans at Arrowhead Stadium on January 19, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images) Getty Images Madden ratings season seems even bigger this year than […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
Art New, Free Shakespeare In The Park Production Of ‘Richard II’ To Debut Tonight As Four-Part Radio Play The Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, originally slated to begin its 2020 Free Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, will still go on, as a four-part radio play debuting on WNYC at 8 p.m. EDT tonight. Andrew Holland will star as Richard II in […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Travel and Living August 1st Reopening Date Pushed Back At Least Another Month Coastline of Waikiki in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. Eager visitors will have to wait longer as the State … [+] has delayed the destinations reopening. Getty At the end of June, Hawaii announced it would do away with its 14-day mandatory quarantine and officially reopen to tourism on August 1st. But today, Governor David Ige announced […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Uncategorized Stock Market Warnings You Should Not Ignore In this episode of What’s Ahead, I attack the destructive idea advanced by politicians like Joe Biden that a booming stock market comes at the expense of American workers. Stocks reflect how investors view current and future prospects of both companies and the economy as a whole. For example, equities collapsed in February and early […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Art Quarantine Creativity Transforms A London-Based Theater Cooperative Into A Global Collaboration Screenshot of Zoom performance, featuring English actor Jacqueline Berces as Miriam (right) and … [+] voice of English director Polly Nayler as Control (left), in American playwright and writer Michael Maiello’s “The First Poet in Space” (2020), presented by London-based The UnDisposables. The UnDisposables Spinning as if she were in a zero-gravity environment, Miriam, performed by […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Business CoronaVirus News Small Business Small Business And Covid-19 Getty Everything we need to get the economy growing is sitting in consumer bank accounts. First came government checks sent to nearly everybody and then unemployed workers received an extra $600 each month in their unemployment checks. However, consumers, those employed and unemployed, did not spend the money mostly because they could not due to government […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Travel and Living Border Likely To Stay Closed Through Late August Canadian officials have no desire to open borders as COVID-19 continues to run roughshod across the … [+] US. Getty For the fourth time, Canada and the United States are expected to extend a ban on non-essential travel, two Canadian officials told Reuters. This would push back the earliest possible reopening to late August. Nobody […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
How to How To Find Promising Value Stocks Getty Here is a classic investing strategy that combines three fundamental factors into a score used to identify promising value stocks: the Fundamental Rule of Thumb screen combines the price-earnings (P/E) ratio, dividend yield and an adjusted return on equity. A Basic Value Rule of Thumb for Screening Stocks Precepts for the analysis of common […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Why Ethereum Has Value – The Opportunity In Programmable Money & ‘DeFi’ Many who are new to crypto assume that there will only be one important cryptoasset in the long run, and that the challenge as an investor is to pick the “best” one. I disagree. Why? Because different cryptoassets (and their associated blockchains) are focused on different use cases. To use an analogy, both Microsoft and […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Art Chance The Rapper Supports Kanye West’s ‘Presidential Run,’ For Some Reason Chance the Rapper hugs Kanye West during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. (Photo by Kevin … [+] Mazur/WireImage) WireImage Few seem to be taking Kanye West’s alleged bid for the presidency seriously, with the exception of West himself. Elon Musk once voiced support for West on Twitter, but in a since-deleted Tweet, acknowledged that […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
News CBN bans forex for maize importation Banks have been directed to stop processing Forms M for the importation of maize with immediate effect. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who made the order on Monday July 13, said the decision to ban forex for maize importation was made to increase local production, stimulate a rapid economic recovery, safeguard rural livelihoods. The apex […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology Corona, Other Crises And Their (Not So) Comparable Effects On Startups Haphazard stock markets. Expansive lay-offs. Impending corporate bankruptcies. Government bail-outs. Global economic downturn. Manifold are the characteristics that the current coronavirus crisis shares with its 2008 predecessor. Social distancing. Reduced mobility. Home-schooling. Remote work. Unprecedented government intervention in personal lives. Just as numerous are the features unique to the Covid-19 crisis, making it all the […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Art By Documenting Vietnam War Reenactments, This Vietnamese-American Photographer Is Fighting For World Peace Growing up during the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese-American photographer An-My Lê saw her homeland assaulted and divided. Her point of view was complicated: For much of the war, she and her family took refuge in France, a nation that had previously colonized Vietnam. Returning after the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, she lived in Saigon […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
News Sony Set To Reveal PS5 Price And Reveal Date PS5s Credit: Sony Here is an inevitable truth: Sony will, at some point, have to tell us how much the PS5 costs. It can’t put this off forever. It can’t sell the PS5 in some sort of $600 loot box, where you might get a new console or you might just get a PS4 skin. […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology XRP Is The Crypto To Watch, Says Vegas Blackjack Pro desktop cpu on dollars currency background. concept of technology price. Getty Steve played on one of the MIT blackjack teams that profited mightily off of Las Vegas 21 tables in the 90’s. He’s one of the few people I know with both an MBA and an MD. Recently, he offered his medical expertise at a […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
CoronaVirus News Habits To Teach Your Child in This COVID-19 World The fight against COVID-19 continues to take place all over the world. With most of us homebound owing to the home-sheltering and social restrictions, we have been able to spend quality time with the family. For those with young children, managing work from home as well as keeping the little ones occupied has been challenging. […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
CoronaVirus News Follow A Low-Carb Diet For Weight Loss Thinking weight loss usually means cutting carbohydrates – whether that’s sugar or bread – out of your diet; the first option most people turn to. Priya Palan, the dietician at Zen Multispecialty Hospital Chembur, says carbohydrates are one of the important macronutrients from which the body obtains energy. What is most important is the type […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Art Three Game-Changing Innovations In The World Of Horology Here are three groundbreaking innovations that are setting the benchmark for tomorrow’s watchmaking. Zenith Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon Zenith Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon Photo courtesy of Zenith Boasting a long heritage in high-frequency escapements, Zenith has for the first time incorporated two separate tourbillon escapements in a timepiece. The first at 10 o’clock beats at […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Business Hanging New Engines On 60-Year-Old B-52 Bombers Will Raise Some Serious Risks The U.S. Air Force wants to continue operating the venerable B-52 bomber through 2050. As I have written recently, that would make it the longest continuously operating jet in history. In order to accomplish this, Air Force leaders plan to make major upgrades to the 76 B-52H bombers in their fleet, including the installation of […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Uncategorized Facebook Might Take Over TikTok This Year Members of the Working Journalist of India (WJI) hold placards urging citizens to remove Chinese … [+] apps. AFP via Getty Images The writing is on the wall. As you’ve probably heard, TikTok has come under fire yet again. After Apple AAPL caught it spying on its iPhone users last week, Trump said he might […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Business How to News Small Business July 15 Is Tax Day This Year. 5 Tips For Small Business Owners Getty If you’re a small business owner, it’s likely that the COVID-19 pandemic has left you little time to think about the upcoming tax filing deadline on July 15. Over the last few months, you’ve dealt with temporary lockdowns, lost revenue and layoffs—all while applying for desperately needed assistance. Many small business owners understandably breathed […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology Romania-Founded UiPath Raises $225 Million To Reach A $10.2 Billion Valuation Daniel Dines, cofounder and CEO of UiPath UiPath Robotic Process Automation (RPA) company UiPath announced today that it closed a $225 million Series E round, reaching an 11-digit valuation for the first time in the company’s history (10.2 billion). Alkeon Capital led the round, with participating investors including Accel, Coatue, Dragoneer, IVP, Madrona Venture Group, […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology An Unwitting Game Of Russian Roulette Data Management: An Unwitting Game of Russian Roulette Getty I noted in several recent blogs that the COVID-19 crisis increased the need for digital transformation because the crisis brings new value-creation opportunities to businesses, and I explained how to capture those business advantages even in a recession. It necessitates implementing the right infrastructure – not […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
News 3 Traits Of A Toxic Partner In A Romantic Relationship Happy Couple Image Stocksy Romantic relationships often require extra effort different from friendships or other sorts of relationships. This is because it includes two different people from diverse backgrounds coming together to have an understandable, peaceful, and loving relationship. Love is beautiful, but love is also hard. The work that goes into a healthy relationship […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
CoronaVirus How to News Shilpa Shetty Shares Simple Yoga Tips to Beat Lockdown Muscle Stress Months of being confined at home and the inability to go for a walk or hit the gym has led to stiffening of muscles and backache among many. Actress and fitness enthusiast Shilpa Shetty has a few simple yoga tips. On Monday, Shilpa shared a video on her verified Instagram account where she can be […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Blogging How to Web Design How to Add Instagram Shoppable Images in WordPress Do you want to add shoppable Instagram images to your WordPress site? Instagram shoppable images have links that people can easily click on to buy your products. This is a powerful way to showcase your products and drive more sales from Instagram. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily add Instagram shoppable images […] Written by July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
