How Will Recession Change Your Love Life?

The title of this article implies your romantic situation may be impacted by the recession. Reading those words, did you expect the worst?

Surprisingly, for many, romance improves during tough financial times. And it’s not desperation.
In fact, how the coming recession specifically affects your emotional life depends on you: your flexibility, attitude, judgment, and willingness to stay open and ride the tide. Changed financial circumstances (or its possibility in the near future) can be your best friend.
Or even your ultimate matchmaker.

But this doesn’t meet you’ll be settling for less. Not at all. You may be attracting—and making decisions on—romance partners based upon deeper values than you did before. Here’s how:
1. When relationships are more easily acquired than tangibles, people look toeach other, instead of things, to feel better.

When one can no longer flash the hot new electronic device or hide behind a cool outfit to gain points, or take the gang to the latest club as a way of bonding, people are forced to attract each other based on the inner qualities.

You get to know who they really are. Faster and more easily.
This can lead to deeper friendships and truer love. Or to knowing quickly and directly that someone simply isn’t for you. I say the earlier, the better. This “early detection” is a blessing that can reduce heartache, disappointment, and the loss of energy and resources, emotional and financial.

2. Deeper friendships lead to stronger, truer, more reliable love relationships.
When life isn’t picture perfect, you get to see each other for who you are in tough situations. In other words, you get a fuller, truer picture of the person you might be choosing to commit to. This could help you avoid some nasty surprises down the road.

On the other hand, romance needs some pleasure and positivity to help it thrive, and to induce both partners to keep coming back for more.

So don’t let a bleak economic picture keep you from enjoying each other and all the emotional goodies that are pleasurable and free. And despite the many chances to seeThe Real You when discussing everything from dinners out to the bargain matinee vs. the seven o’clock show, do keep the sparks of romance alive.

3. Tough times can provoke greater clarity and true vision: in times like these you get to see who people really are—a boon to making better choices.
With less money and fewer fine accoutrements to hide behind, and an underlying nervousness about what is on the horizon, you may get to see potential love partners psychically nude.
That’s good.

Better to know now that when the heat is on, he bolts or she gets selfish. Or, more happily, that you are both willing to share resources and amuse yourselves with things that cost little but help build closeness.

4. If sticking to the usual (friends, meeting places, attitudes, pastimes) was partly responsible for your limited love life, recession may force you to be in different places, acquire new habits and patterns—and lead to finding love when & where you rarely went before.

During the last recession, K. met her now-husband on the unemployment line. Many met new people to befriend and date. Banding together to improve their lot, people can assist each other with career ideas, stories that cheer the spirit, and dog sitting (yes, really).

Of course there are some things to watch for, especially when times are difficult. As your mother warned years ago, beware of opportunists who feel desperate as they find themselves tightening their belts.

Even more important, beware of your own needs and signs of desperation. When we feel scared or alone, we may reach out to partners we would not have chosen otherwise.

Sometimes this is useful, especially if you have become too particular—about the wrong things. If you’ve been judging your dates wholly on their cars, homes, bank accounts, and social set, the recession may actually improve your choice making: alerting you to the importance of loyalty, kindness, and trustworthiness over wealth.

And if you have been generous when vetting potential life partners, continue enjoying that kind spirit at the same time as you allow your natural protection mechanisms to alert you to something suspicious. Trusted friends who know you well can help in this regard.

Once you’ve dated someone new and become interested, consider arranging a double date with a trusted couple and get their gut reactions to your new special someone.

If this feels uncomfortable to you, or like a betrayal of your new partner, know that it really is okay to protect yourself. Anyone who wants the best for you will understand, including a new girlfriend or boyfriend.

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81st Oscar ceremony had its moments

Rajeev: I’m not a huge fan of any awards shows, whether for movies, music or musicals, so I’ve always had mixed feelings about the Oscars. The concept of several hundred deciding for millions what the best movies are seems an inherently flawed approach to a subjective medium like movies. It’s like the electoral college approach to elections — only with better fashion sense.
Still, last night had its moments.

Ben Stiller and Natalie Portman’s presentation for Best Cinematography was a particular favorite. Stiller sported a fake beard and sunglasses, mocking Joaquin Phoenix’s recent bizarre appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

Finally, finally, finally, Kate Winslett won her award after five fruitless nominations. Her acceptance speech was quite moving, especially when she found her father through the clever use of whistling. Sean Penn absolutely made my night by taking Best Actor for “Milk.” Extremely well deserved.

Critical darling “Slumdog Millionaire” swept, winning eight of the nine categories it was nominated for, including best picture, cinematography, screenplay (adapted) and directing. That slew of wins might be more politic than deserved, but that’s the academy for you.
Vob: Well, I think part of the problem is that some people tend to not be discerning in secondary categories like Sound Mixing, but that’s just my guess.

A new method of presenting the best acting awards was introduced — past winners each paid tribute to one nominee before the winner was announced. It took up a little more time than usual, but it was nice to see some old faces. It’s also a fine way of honoring all the nominees.
There were some lovely moments, but no big surprises. The most expected and most somber moment of the night came when Heath Ledger was awarded the Best Actor statue for his role in “The Dark Knight.” His award was accepted by his parents and sister, who gave a dignified, graceful speech. The show featured a good mix of sentiment and entertainment.

Rajeev: Jack Black and Jennifer Anniston had some clever repartee, but not every pairing was a gem. Beyonce Knowles duet with first-time host Hugh Jackman during the celebration of musicals was interesting, but I have a feeling the medley honoring the likes of “Grease” and “Hairspray” might have upset a few Broadway fans.
The new presentation method was really great. It made every nominee in major categories feel like a winner. There were plenty of tear-jerker moments as a result.
It was nice to see Robert Downey Jr. get his first nod since “Chaplin” in 1992, but when pit against the titanic performance of Heath Ledger in “Dark Knight” he didn't stand a chance. Ledger’s “menacing, droll and diabolical” performance (quoth presenter Kevin Kline) definitely deserved the win, and his family’s acceptance speech was quite moving.
Finally, Pixar Animation Studios surprised no one by winning its fourth Best Animated Feature award with “WALL-E.” Some locals might be disappointed, however, that UTC alumnus Dustin Cawood didn’t receive recognition for his work as a sound engineer for the film, which lost the sound editing category to “Dark Knight.”
Even though my opinion of awards shows wasn’t altered in any meaningful way by last night’s showcase, I certainly appreciate the recognition many deserving films received, even if “Milk” didn’t.

Vob: Unlike my partner in crime, I’m a big fan of awards shows. I don’t take them too seriously, but I find the spectacle amusing, and will absolutely admit to being caught up in the sentimentality of it. I was fighting not to tear up when Kate Winslet finally accepted her first Academy Award, for her sixth nomination. Sean Penn did not resist getting on his soapbox, but knowing how incendiary Penn can be, handled himself with dignity. He also paid tribute to fellow nominee Rourke, with whom he was in a close race. Very gentlemanly.
Inasmuch as the Oscars are spectacle, it is nice to see how humbled some of the winners were. Or they’re just really good actors.

Slumdog Millionaire swweps 8 Oscar

Slumdog Millionaire was the runaway winner at the 81st Academy Awards last night.Danny boyle's Mumbai-set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, taking best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as five others. Meanwhile, Kate Winslet picked up the best actress award, though there was a surprise for Mickey Rourke - widely tipped as the winner of the best actor award, but pipped at the post by Sean Penn.

But not even this turn of events could prise the night's focus away from Slumdog, just as not even the most potentially damaging allegations that its child stars had been exploited were, in the end, able to scrape any sheen off Boyle's crowdpleaser. The pre-teen actors, flown in especially from India for the occasion, charmed all on the red carpet, then repeated the trick on the podium at the Kodak theatre, where they helped producer Christian Colson accept the top gong for best motion picture.

Earlier in the evening, the film's director, Danny Boyle, bounced onto the stage to pick up his award for best director, apparently keeping a long-held promise to his children that he would accept an Oscar "in the spirit of Tigger". He thanked his cast, crew and family, the people of Mumbai and of St Mary's Social Club in his hometown of Radcliffe in Lancashire. He also praised the evening's organisers. "I don't know what it looks like on television," he said, "but in the room, it's bloody wonderful."

Yet until about halfway through the ceremony, Slumdog's fate seemed uncertain. It was neck-and-neck with its closest rival, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher's loose adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backwards, each film having bagged three awards. But then Slumdog snatched two consecutive awards from its competitor: best sound mixing and best editing.

Soon afterwards the film's composer, AR Rahman, won the prize for best score and best song. Sandwiched between the awards, he performed the winning number, Jai Ho. Earlier in the evening, Simon Beaufoy had won the award for best adapted screenplay, while Anthony Dod Mantle took the gong for best cinematography.

Brits did well in other categories, too. Winslet made a relatively restrained speech (compared with her now infamous effusions at the Golden Globes) when accepting the best actress award for her role as a former SS concentration camp guard in Stephen Daldry's The Reader. She acknowledged her long-time desire for the honour, then thanked her husband, director Sam Mendes, and her two children. On stage, and unable to see where her parents were seated in the auditorium, she asked her father to whistle to her, which he did, to the delight of the assembled A-listers.

Meanwhile, Simon Chinn and James Marsh were surprise winners of the best documentary award for Man On Wire, their acclaimed film following tightrope artist Philippe Petit's hair-raising trip between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on a tightrope. They were joined on stage by Petit, who, ever the showman, managed to balance a statuette on his chin.
But the least expected moment undoubtedly occurred late on, when bookies' favourite Mickey Rourke was denied the best actor award for his role as a washed-up grappler in The Wrestler by sometime arch-rival Sean Penn. Penn, who won for his portrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Gus van Sant's biopic, Milk acknowledged the shock in his speech, exclaiming, "Well, you commie, homo-loving sons of guns!"
Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best foreign language film prize from the much-fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.
But by and large, the ceremony was most notable for its cheery predictability. Hotly-tipped Penélope Cruz took the award for best supporting actress for her amusingly volatile performance in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, while the late Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. His family picked up the award in his stead. "This award tonight ... validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here, his peers, in an industry that he so loved," said his father, Kim, who was joined on stage by the late actor's mother, Sally, and sister, Kate.
Host Hugh Jackman was widely judged to have acquitted himself admirably in a ceremony that somehow managed to be both intimate and heavy on old-fashioned razzle-dazzle. Frequent mentions of the global recession were echoed by a Depression-era style musical dance number, which saw a top-hatted Jackman, alongside Beyoncé and the young stars of Mamma Mia! and High School Musical, dance up a storm in a medley extravaganza. Queen Latifah, however, got the stage all to herself, belting out I'll Be Seeing You over the In Memorium montage.
Irreverent comedy from the likes of Steve Martin and Tina Fey - well-paired to present best original screenplay (which went to Dustin Lance Black for Milk) was warmly received in the auditorium. Likewise Seth Rogen and James Franco, who reprised their Pineapple Express stoners act to titter at stony-faced contenders such as The Reader and Doubt. But the show-stealer looked to be Ben Stiller, spoofing Joaquin Phoenix's zonked out appearance on the David
Letterman show, with a Unabomber beard, muffed delivery and a zonked-out stare.
Yet the 2009 Oscars, for all their glitz and glamour, look likely to be remembered chiefly for their celebration of one film: a drama about homeless oprhans in one of the world's most impoverished regions. Few could have imagined, a year back, that this would be the case. Not even the film's screenwriter.

"There are certain places you never imagine standing," said Simon Beaufoy, on winning his award. "The moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podium and here." After such wild success tonight, the winner's podium at the Oscars now seems the most likely place for a sighting of anyone associated with Slumdog.

4 Cash Management Tips For Your Dollar Store Business

Let's face it cash flow management can be a major challenge for every new business. It is more complex for those who open a dollar store business. There are the standard problems of having enough money at the right time to pay rent, utilities and other monthly bills. There is the challenging of generating enough profit to have money left over for you to pay yourself. There's the challenge of having cash to purchase replenishment merchandise. Finally there is the challenge of having the funds to support the continued growth of your store. High volume, low margin businesses complicate the problem, making cash flow management a never-ending challenge. In this article I will provide 4 cash management tips for your dollar store business.

1. Start with a reserve fund. One of the biggest mistakes any new business owner can make is to start business without having a reserve fund in-place and available to support them during the initial twelve-months or more of start-up. Those who open a dollar store business are no different. No matter what you expected to happen, there will be the unexpected. It might be an unexpected winter storm that slows sales. It might be an unexpected increase in utility costs. It might be the need for more inventory to support sales. There is a long list of possibilities. The important message is to always have a reserve when you open your store. Be able to depend on that reserve when things don't go exactly as planned.

2. Know your financial status and results. Manage your dollar store business as a business. That means staffing, replenishment merchandise and other spending must be in-line with sales and profits. Work with your CPA to establish sales and spending goals. Develop strategies to achieve all of your goals. If that means cost cutting, then start examining costs to be cut. If it means adding staff to support growing sales, then get that staff hired, trained and in-place to support sales. Take the right steps for the right reasons to achieve the best results possible.

3. Set cash aside to keep merchandise on-hand. It's a very simple truth; no inventory means you will have no sales. Inventory replenishment will likely be your highest monthly cost. Be sure to develop cash management strategies so you never run out of the critical items your customers routinely purchase. That strategy starts by knowing the highest demand items in your store, and never having a customer walk-out because you allowed those critical items to become totally depleted. It means ignoring 'special deals' from suppliers until you are positive all routine replenishment costs have been covered.

4. Pay yourself last. That's right, the cruel truth is that you need to pay yourself after all other costs and expenses have been covered. Develop a plan to cover your personal expenses when the store profits don't provide a paycheck for you before you open your dollar store business. You don't need the added pressure of past-due person bills as you are starting and growing a new business.To your dollar store business success

HOW TO CRACK AIEEE & I.I.T

I AM AN ENGINEERING STUDENT AND CURRENTLY STUDYING IN N.I.T JAMSHEDPUR. I JUST WANT TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE STUDENTS WHO ARE GOING TO FACE THE AIEEE AND I.I.T ENTERANCE EXAMS NEXT HERE.HERE ,I AM SHARING 1O TIPS TO CRACK THESE ENTRANCE EXAMS.

I have learnt many hard lessons in my past couple of years while preparing for my entrance examinations.I would summarize the main points in list so that they are easy to remember…

1)First and most important is to have confidence in yourself.Don’t lose that confidence while preparing for the entrance exams even if you are not doing well in the coaching classes.

2)Having mentioned about coaching classes,I would say they play an important role in helping you crack the exam.The simple reason being continued guidance throughout the year and perpetual tests that keep you in touch with course all the time.Hence it is important to be regular in them to be able to achieve good results in the end.

3)At home prepare a time table and follow it strictly.Don’t ignore it.

4)Don’t get too involved with only engineering books and refer to NCERT books too.With the new IIT pattern, a lot of questions are directly made from there which you might have already seen yourself by analyzing this year’s paper.

5)Don’t waste time and don’t stress yourself.Study in a balanced way and maintain a good friend circle who will guide you when you face doubts and also boost your morale.

6)This one is for toppers!Don’t get complacent.Many good rankers in coaching institutes get complacent if they good marks which in is bad in the long run as they lose out to lower rankers in the end.I have seen many cases.

7)To crack big papers it is very very important to be able to solve the paper completely.You might know all the questions but not been able to solve them is equivalent to not knowing them.So the golden rule is practice a lot of sample papers and in the exams not to waste time on a single question.

8)Stay away from computers as much as possible! This is a major distraction from students from towns and cities as you don’t get to know how quickly time is slipping out of your hands along with straining your eyes and body which makes you dizzy and you are off to sleep!

9)Choosing the right books for entrance exams is very important.Consult IITians and your teachers about them to make sure that you get your hands on the right ones and don’t waste your time in trying out new books every time.

10)Last but very important point is not to get nervous while going for the exam.This will get your hands and brain move faster,quicker and better than those who are nervous! These 10 are my golden rules which if followed strictly will definitely help you crack the paper and you will emerge out with flying colors!!