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Little Red Riding Hood

Mid-Century Modern Illustration: Creating A Cover Book With Illustrator And InDesign

In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to create a beautiful cover design inspired by the 1950s. Specifically, the cover will be for a childrens book, so were going to create a well-known character: Little Red Riding Hood. The interesting aspect of this …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Mary Holm: Should I sell up or become a landlord?

COMMENT: I'm at a crossroads. I own a house and have decided to move to a different school zone no later than next year to keep my child schooling with friends and also in a significantly better academically-performing school.The decision I have to make is w…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Elon Musk

Amazon to the moon – Business News – Castanet.net

Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there. Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Recycling

Volkswagen details its plan for old EV batteries

With the increasing electrification of Volkswagen's fleet, the company has come up with a plan to deal with EV batteries at the end of their lifecycle. Volkswagen says its ID.3 factory can crank out 330,000 cars per year. Instead of merely recycling them, VW …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Chinese Economy

Trump’s plan for US farms echoes Mao Zedong’s Communist China

Donald Trumps Twitter feed is playing an increasingly central role in the messy trade talks between the US and China. He used it on May 5 to announce that the US could increase additional tariffs on Chinese products, after being briefed by US officials that …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Trade War

Over Trump’s Opposition, House Approves Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Aid

The standoff in Washington is having real-world impact. Puerto Ricans saw their first increase in nutritional assistance expire in March. Coastal states are urgently awaiting reconstruction funding less than a month before the next hurricane season begins. An…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Christianity

New & Noteworthy

THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by Jay Parini. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Parini, a poet, novelist and biographer whose previous books include a historical account of Jesus, here uses fiction to imagine the life and times of St. Paul and explore the early spread of Christianity…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Italy says it will seize charity ship that rescued migrants

Italy has allowed two groups of migrants to disembark in Italy despite the country's "closed ports" policy after European countries agreed to take in some of them and officials impounded a charity ship that brought others. Thirty migrants rescued from a rubb…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Chinese Economy

Trading punches: Can China absorb Trump’s latest tariff blow?

The United States has thrown what it hopes will be the punch that forces its main economic rival, China, to change its trade practices. On Friday, US President Donald Trump more than doubled import tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of Chinese …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Super Komachi

World’s fastest bullet train starts high-speed tests

Japan is pushing the limits of rail travel as it begins testing the fastest-ever shinkansen bullet train, capable of speeds of as much as 400 kilometers (249 miles) per hour. Called the Alfa-X, the train is scheduled to go into service in 2030. Rail company …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Mid-Century Modern Illustration: Creating A Cover Book With Illustrator And InDesign

Mary Holm: Should I sell up or become a landlord?

Amazon to the moon – Business News – Castanet.net

Volkswagen details its plan for old EV batteries

Trump’s plan for US farms echoes Mao Zedong’s Communist China

Over Trump’s Opposition, House Approves Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Aid

New & Noteworthy

Italy says it will seize charity ship that rescued migrants

Trading punches: Can China absorb Trump’s latest tariff blow?

World’s fastest bullet train starts high-speed tests

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