![]() If your parents send you a few hundred dollars as a birthday gift, that may be considered a remittance payment too. Also, if you are sent $1000 each money to the US from India as rent for your property in India, it may also be considered a remittance payment. To make the picture clearer, here are some examples of remittance payments: If you work in the United States and send 20% of your monthly earnings back home in India, it is a remittance payment. The term is primarily used in the context of international payments - however, more loosely, it is also sometimes used to refer to business payments made across international borders. ![]() The term ‘remittance’ comes from the word ‘remit or ‘to send back,’ and so ‘remittance payments’ refers to the amount of money transferred from one person to another - usually in that person’s home country. ![]() ![]() Remittance Guides What is Remittance and What Are Remittance Payments?
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![]() ![]() We find after years of struggle that we not take a trip a trip takes us. In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. ![]() He is a proud dog, vain of his appearance. The poodle is suffused with complex human traits and emotions, many of which Steinbeck cheekily attributes to his French heritage. ![]() And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. By: John Steinbeck Publisher's Summary A stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decadeand a moving elegy for more innocent times. Steinbeck’s traveling companion for his journey, his standard French Poodle Charley, figures prominently in the narrative. ![]() I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself.A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck) 1 Julian De Backer 547 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 460 views 2 years ago © Steinbeck Family © Blake Smyle and Thomas Steinbeck Show more Show. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. “When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like). 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Magic comes cheap in fiction, but with Oyeyemi, you get the sense that it’s in her writing because reality isn’t enough for her. “He was handsome but the scent of his cologne was one she very strongly associated with loan sharks,” she writes in “Drownings,” a story in her new collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. “Even so, can’t loan sharks also be caring boyfriends, or at the very least great in bed?” At the age of 31, Oyeyemi has published five much-laureled novels - beginning with The Icarus Girl, which she famously wrote in high school - and two plays. Her sentences have an elegance often set off by jolts of contemporary vernacular. A restless imagination harnessed to a smooth and propulsive prose style - Helen Oyeyemi’s fiction is a juggernaut, and she brakes for no one. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he writes, what he has brought over these decades to the study of these themes is scepticism: in particular, about the relationship between what the Church’s texts said about heretics and what was out there in reality. Since The War on Heresy is aimed at a general as well as academic market, Moore has provided its full bibliography on his website ( ), and there will be found also further reflections on his work (under ‘Text and context’). (1) The publication in 2006 of Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R.I. The most important are the anthology of translated texts entitled The Birth of Popular Heresy, The Origins of European Dissent, and The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250. Moore’s writings on medieval heresy and repression, which have been appearing since 1970. The War on Heresy is the most recent of R. ![]() ![]() Their aid will come at a price: the kids must pass a series of trials in which it seems like nature itself is out to kill them. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says "Run!", the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission that can only be accomplished with the help of Diné Holy People, all disguised as quirky characters. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. ![]() ![]() *"Fans of Hugo and Nebula winner Roanhorse will appreciate her fast-paced prose, page-turning chapter endings, and most of all, strong female protagonist."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Indigenous fantasy writer Rebecca Roanhorse's thrilling adventure about a Navajo girl who discovers she's a monsterslayer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She chooses a narrative voice that speaks from a point located somewhere between an unreconstructed part of herself and a responsible adult. Livingston narrates Ghostbread to suggest that her experiences tell something immutable about human existence. Most memoirs are composed as if memory unmasks the past and liberates the future. ![]() “I see with agonizing clarity from where I stand,” she writes in the epilogue of those who now live in poverty, “and though I’d love to point them in new directions, there is no rope strong enough to pull someone from one life to another.” Sonja Livingston’s Ghostbread is a memoir about growing up poor, fatherless, white, Catholic, and one of seven children in the bleak neighborhoods of Buffalo and Rochester, the towns along Lake Ontario, and an Indian reservation during the 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, there’s no escaping the arranged bond, much less a man like Luca. In her world a handsome exterior often hides the monster within a monster who can just as easily kill as kiss you. But Aria knows the bad boy aura isn’t just a game blood and death lurk beneath Luca’s striking gray eyes and arrogant smile. He may be one of the most sought-after bachelors in New York, thanks to his good looks, wealth and predator-like charisma. Luca is the future Capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality-and for crushing his cousin’s throat with his bare hands.Īria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. What many consider a gift means her doom when she’s forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two mafia dynasties. Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a mafia princess known for her beauty. ![]() ![]() ‘It was the hypocrisy of it that was so difficult,’ she says. But to Christina, the public image was a gilded lie. ![]() She lived in a sprawling house in Brentwood, Los Angeles and used her wealth to adopt and raise four children, including Christina, an act much lauded in extensive magazine spreads about her happy family life. Over a career spanning five decades, she starred alongside Clark Gable in Possessed, Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and won a 1945 Best Actress Academy Award for the title role in Mildred Pierce. ![]() She was one of the original studio ingenues, an actress who overcame an impoverished childhood to become one of the highest-paid women in the business. To everyone else she was simply Joan Crawford, Hollywood movie star.Īt the height of her fame in the 1940s, Crawford had a considerable reputation to uphold. She was not the tyrannical harpy who apparently let rip behind closed doors. She was not the alcoholic, given to occasional bursts of sporadic violence. ![]() To the wider public, Christina’s mother was not the abusive parent, prone to uncontrolled bouts of fury. It was a side of her mother that no one else ever saw. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original title I gave the first book was WINDWALKER-which is totally proof that I’m terrible at titles. I also considered it essential research to eat at In-’n-Out as often as I could.Īnd I’m with Vane-animal style all the way. (side note: the valet at my hotel gave me a very weird look when I asked for my car at 4am and directions to the pier…) 3. ![]() So not only did I return to the desert many times, but I also stayed in Santa Monica and went to the pier in the middle of the night to see how many lights they turned off, what kind of people were around, etc. Since the series is fantasy set in a contemporary location, I wanted to describe any “real” elements as accurately as I could. Vane’s house is also modeled off of my childhood best friend’s house, which was right next to a date grove and a fire-scarred shack. So all those details about the date roaches and the dust storms and the unrelenting heat are things I’ve personally experienced. The setting of the books (the Coachella Valley, CA) is where I grew up. Here are five things you may not know about the Sky Fall series. ![]() |