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RG Richardson Interactive Restaurant Guides keeps you up to date with careers, restaurants, real estate, money, banking and cities worldwide.

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Interactive finance, money and banking dictionaries and notes. Enhance your Financial literary with all the current definitions.

Interactive city guides help you find out about everything going on in your city.

Interactive Restaurant Guide keeps you up to date with who is open or closed, dine in or take out.

Interactive Career, City, Restaurant and Finance Guides

Here are the resources to help you throughout the process, from identifying a promising opportunity and writing a resume to interview with potential employers and negotiating a job offer. Get expert tips and advice for landing the right role for you. There are hundreds of job boards, both generic and niche, as well as aggregators, social media channels, networking groups and staffing company websites to choose from.

Stop using paper guides and brochures! Since 2015 using the power of the internet RG Richardson City Guides has published over 230 guides, glossaries and notes. No typing, search with over 10,900 links on hundreds of topics on everything you need to know about your city in over 10 languages and available in 190 countries! Never out of date and very fast with 5G! Google App (IOS and Android) for phone, pad, pc and Kindle on Amazon.

Interactive City Guide searches using the power of the internet, continuously updated and never out of date.
All editions use the power of the internet with 8 search engines and over 10,900 links. Use your browser to search for a city in your language with 10 different languages available. Point and click that is it and with a 5G network, it is very fast! You can now avoid spelling mistakes and language difficulties making your search accurate and simple enough for everybody to use. One thumb required, simply click the icon and your search is done. Read everything you want to know and it is never out of date. Don’t want to read, watch it all as it searches YouTube too!
Restaurant guides have extensive restaurant (barbecue, buffet, bistro, cafeteria, fast food, fine dining, pub, ethnic restaurants) searches. Sit in the coffee shop and start searching away on their WiFi and start using our interactive city search guides with multiple languages!
For PC, Mac, Pad, iPhone or mobile IOS and Android phone enabled search tool with multi-search engine capability built right in.
RG Richardson guides search for careers, food, hotels, real estate, historical sites, sports, transportation, concerts, even public toilets and water closets. Find everything that’s fun to do; with travel planning, maps and car rentals.
Good for tourists, travellers, vacationers and business persons who have just moved to town, and even long-term residents who want to stay on top of what’s new and current in their area or city.
These guides are great for those with disabilities; pick and click with one thumb, no typing!
Finance interactive notes, dictionaries and glossaries for economics, financial, markets, money and banking for students and professionals.
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively apply various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy helps individuals become self-sufficient so that they can achieve financial stability.
Career and job interactive search guides for cities worldwide.
Real estate interactive housing, apartments, condominiums, vacation properties and commercial property guides for cities worldwide.
All guides search in 10 languages including Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Indian, Portuguese and Japanese!
R.G. Richardson City Interactive Guides using the power of the internet. Over 200 guides are available in 190 countries worldwide.

Published in Canada by:
eComTechnology/RGRichardson

Assign Centre, ISBN Division
Library and Archives Canada
Author R.G. Richardson
Victoria, BC. V8R 5G9
Updated 1/2021

Major changes will kick in on both sides of the English Channel in the New Year when the full effects of Brexit will be felt.The United Kingdom officially left the European Union in January 2020, but a post-Brexit transition period has kept most existing arrangements in place. Once this expires on December 31, EU rules will cease to apply to the UK.Most of these changes were due to happen regardless of the post-Brexit trade negotiations. Some issues have been impacted by the deal struck between London and Brussels last week.Here, in the first of a two-part series, we look at the impact on people, focusing on residency, travel and exchanges between the UK and the continent.

Source: Life after Brexit: What will change for people in 2021 when the UK is free of EU rules? | Euronews

For last year’s Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, Variomobil introduced the fourth generation of its “Perfect” line of ultra-luxury motorhomes, revealing the Mercedes Actros-based Perfect 1000. How do you follow up such an impressive exhibition appearance? By climbing even higher up the ladder and revealing the larger, more exclusive flagship model, the Perfect 1200 Platinum. A little piece of exclusive real estate built onto a triple-axle Mercedes chassis, the new 1200 features a massive living space broadened by three electro-hydraulic slide-outs and enhanced with nightclub-grade audio and intelligent lighting, all the appliances of home, and an XXL garage large enough to bring along a high-powered grand tourer … say, a Mercedes-AMG GT.

Source: $1.8-million Vario Perfect ultra-luxury motorhome is 2 Mercedes in 1

Public Health England (PHE) has said it does not recommend mixing COVID-19 vaccines from different suppliers.The warning comes as distribution of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is due to start in the UK next week, the second roll-out following the launch of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in December, with both requiring two doses.

Source: COVID-19: ‘Mixing coronavirus vaccines is not recommended,’ health agency warns | UK News | Sky News

As usual, some disclaimers apply. First of all, given the surging popularity of ebikes, we’ve given them their own separate list. That means there are no electric bicycles or related products included in this roundup. The most innovative and comfy large motorhomes of 2020Secondly, we’re not claiming that the things being recapped here are necessarily the “best” cycling innovations from the past year. Instead, they’re products that we think took a particularly unique approach to serving their purpose, and are therefore commendable for their ingenuity.Additionally, a number of them were the subject of crowdfunding projects, which might or not might not actually reach the production phase. So … with all that in mind, check out our picks!

Source: The 10 most innovative cycling products of 2020

RG Richardson Interactive Guides keeps you up to date with careers, restaurants, real estate, money, banking and cities worldwide.

Never out of date!

Interactive finance, money and banking dictionaries and notes. Enhance your Financial literary with all the current definitions.

Interactive city guides help you find out about everything going on in your city.

Interactive Restaurant Guide keeps you up to date with who is open or closed, dine in or take out.

Interactive Career, City, Restaurant and Finance Guides

Here are the resources to help you throughout the process, from identifying a promising opportunity and writing a resume to interview with potential employers and negotiating a job offer. Get expert tips and advice for landing the right role for you. There are hundreds of job boards, both generic and niche, as well as aggregators, social media channels, networking groups and staffing company websites to choose from.

Stop using paper guides and brochures! Since 2015 using the power of the internet RG Richardson City Guides has published over 230 guides, glossaries and notes. No typing, search with over 10,900 links on hundreds of topics on everything you need to know about your city in over 10 languages and available in 190 countries! Never out of date and very fast with 5G! Google App (IOS and Android) for phone, pad, pc and Kindle on Amazon.

Interactive City Guide searches using the power of the internet, continuously updated and never out of date.
All editions use the power of the internet with 8 search engines and over 10,900 links. Use your browser to search for a city in your language with 10 different languages available. Point and click that is it and with a 5G network, it is very fast! You can now avoid spelling mistakes and language difficulties making your search accurate and simple enough for everybody to use. One thumb required, simply click the icon and your search is done. Read everything you want to know and it is never out of date. Don’t want to read, watch it all as it searches YouTube too!
Restaurant guides have extensive restaurant (barbecue, buffet, bistro, cafeteria, fast food, fine dining, pub, ethnic restaurants) searches. Sit in the coffee shop and start searching away on their WiFi and start using our interactive city search guides with multiple languages!
For PC, Mac, Pad, iPhone or mobile IOS and Android phone enabled search tool with multi-search engine capability built right in.
RG Richardson guides search for careers, food, hotels, real estate, historical sites, sports, transportation, concerts, even public toilets and water closets. Find everything that’s fun to do; with travel planning, maps and car rentals.
Good for tourists, travellers, vacationers and business persons who have just moved to town, and even long-term residents who want to stay on top of what’s new and current in their area or city.
These guides are great for those with disabilities; pick and click with one thumb, no typing!
Finance interactive notes, dictionaries and glossaries for economics, financial, markets, money and banking for students and professionals.
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively apply various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy helps individuals become self-sufficient so that they can achieve financial stability.
Career and job interactive search guides for cities worldwide.
Real estate interactive housing, apartments, condominiums, vacation properties and commercial property guides for cities worldwide.
All guides search in 10 languages including Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Indian, Portuguese and Japanese!
R.G. Richardson City Interactive Guides using the power of the internet. Over 200 guides are available in 190 countries worldwide.

Published in Canada by:
eComTechnology/RGRichardson

Assign Centre, ISBN Division
Library and Archives Canada
Author R.G. Richardson
Victoria, BC. V8R 5G9
Updated 1/2021

The world’s most mysterious cave is difficult to reach. To get to Cueva de los Tayos—Cave of the Oilbirds—drive east out of Ecuador’s capital city of Quito for eight hours along narrow, potholed roads that twist through cloudforest above the Amazon Basin. Pull over outside the small town of Mendez, and walk a path to the bank of the muddy Santiago River, where you’ll see locals hauling 150-pound bushels of bananas on their shoulders. Lower yourself into a long wooden canoe and glide past cascading waterfalls to the start of a dirt trail. Hike five hours in the humidity, over Puntilla de Coangos mountain, then up to the summit of Bocana de Coangos. The trail ends at a clearing with three thatch huts, home to a dozen Shuar, the ancient tribe that guards the cave.The Shuar are the Indigenous people of the region, legendary warriors known for shamanism and for shrinking the heads of their enemies. Tayos beckons from deep inside territory that is managed and protected by the tribe, and visitors must take great care when navigating the local politics and customs. Theo Toulkaridis, a geology professor and researcher at the University of the Armed Forces in Ecuador, who is a leading expert on Tayos, learned this the hard way in 2014. After a few days exploring the cave, he climbed out to find 20 angry Shuar waiting for him. Toulkaridis had hired local guides, but other Shuar were upset that they had not been hired as well. “My guide hugged me close and whispered, ‘Don’t resist,’” Toulkaridis recalls. Then a Shuar woman whipped him with a belt.Tayos is named for the brown-feathered, hook-billed nocturnal birds that dwell inside the cave alongside thousands of bats. The birds act a lot like bats, spending their days in darkness and heading out at night to forage for fruit. They’re called oilbirds ­because of their fatty chicks, which the Shuar capture and reduce to oil. The cave is also rumored to contain artifacts of a lost civilization. A 1972 bestselling book by Swiss author Erich von Däniken, called The Gold of the Gods, claimed that Tayos held carved passageways and a “metal library” of tablets written in an unknown language. Von Däniken has long believed that aliens once inhabited the earth, and the tablets fit his theory that extraterrestrials helped ancient people evolve. The notion has been criticized as pseudoscientific and racist, attributing the achievements of now marginalized earthlings to ­interlopers from space. Yet it spawned a cottage industry of books, conventions, and TV shows, ­including the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, which premiered in 2010 and is one of the network’s most popular programs.A couple of years after The Gold of the Gods was published, the late Scottish explorer Stan Hall assembled a team of 100 scientists, cavers, British and Ecuadorean military personnel, and, remarkably, astronaut Neil Armstrong, who served as a figurehead, and led them into Tayos to unravel the mystery. What they found astonished them. Deep inside, in spots where it would have been impossible to lug machinery, there were stone passageways that appeared to have been cut at right angles and then polished. They also discovered a burial site dating back to 1500 B.C. “The cadaver, as if surprised by the sudden intrusion after so many lonely centuries, crumbled to dust when touched,” Hall writes in Tayos Gold, his book about the expedition. Though the team didn’t find the metal library, Armstrong put the adventure “up there with the moon landing.”Beyond that, only a small number of intrepid hikers, wide-eyed UFO believers, and even a team of researchers from Brigham Young University—who believed that the metal tablets might be linked to the Mormon faith—have made it inside. The cave has also attracted interest from geologists and archaeologists, who have mapped portions using 3D technology to better understand its scope. (Roughly four miles of the cave have been mapped so far, but an estimated three miles remain.) Toulkaridis calls it “a natural laboratory which is fundamentally untouched.” To enter Tayos, you need more than the permission of the Shuar. You also need a blessing from the cave itself. I learn this late one starry night in August of 2019, in Kuankus, the tiny Shuar settlement, which is located about one mile uphill from Tayos. Getting here has been a brutal ten-hour slog in sweltering heat. The trek included crossing a rickety rope bridge high above the rapids and trudging in mud through thick jungle loaded with giant black bullet ants, so named because being bit by one feels like being shot. The plan is to stay in Kuankus for the night, then enter the cave with our Shuar guides the next morning.I’m here with a small team led by Eileen Hall, Stan Hall’s 34-year-old half-Scottish, half-Ecuadoran daughter, who continued her father’s quest to understand the true history and power of the cave after he died of prostate cancer in 2008. Eileen, who lives in London, is artistic and spiritual, a former arc

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LIKE SO MANY PUBS ACROSS the United Kingdom, the Baverstock Arms is surrounded by history. Unlike most historic inns, however, this is not the location of a significant event, nor is it haunted or the subject of traditional tales. This Basingstoke pub is surrounded by history in a far more literal sense: It operates from within an actual museum. Opened in 2000, the Milestones Living History Museum recreates a typical Hampshire town frozen in time between the Victorian and post–World War II eras. On a series of cobbled and tram-lined streets, museum-goers are able to take a peek into the homes of “locals” and explore a street of shops, including watchmakers, sweet shops, and greengrocers. Overlooking the bandstand and picnic green, however, stands the establishment ubiquitous to every British town: the watering hole, the “local,” the pub.Named for James Baverstock, a local brewer who applied scientific methods to improve the quality of ale, the Baverstock Arms is a working pub located on the museum’s Jubilee Street. Here, patrons can grab a pint, soft drink, or cup of tea, and rest their legs while watching the world of centuries past go by. If your tipple is timely, you may even be able to join the museum’s resident pianist for a sing-along of old favorites.Know Before You GoThe Baverstock Arms shares opening times with Milestones Museum. Please check the museum’s website for up-to-date information on openings and closures.

Source: The Baverstock Arms – Basingstoke, England – Gastro Obscura

LOCATED IN BEAUTIFUL MARBLEHEAD, HERRESHOFF Castle is a hidden Gothic structure embellishing the town. Inspired by Erik the Red’s Viking property located in Greenland, Waldo Ballard built the castle in 1920. It was later sold to Francis Herreshoff in 1945.The castle’s external facades are made of stone walls covered by climbing plants. It also features Gothic arched windows, wooden doors, and several turrets. The structure was formerly known as Brattahlid Castle, but was later renamed to honor its owner’s last name.Herreshoff, a Connecticut native, grew up in the castle and was destined to run the family’s estate. However, he chose instead to devote himself to the boatyard industry. He is still most notably associated with this unique castle. In 1990, the castle was sold to Michael Rubino, who made a few renovations and converted the two-story castle carriage house into a bed and breakfast. It included amenities such as a medieval garden, a coat of arms, a set of armor, a chimney, carousel horses, and medieval type furniture.Legends say there is a secret stairway and dungeon underneath the property, but there hasn’t been any concrete evidence of proving either. It’s said that Ballard financed the castle’s construction with treasure hidden in the basement by merchants from the previous century.It’s not known why Ballard undertook such a project, but it’s a delightful, hidden medieval gem for those visiting the region. Know Before You GoThe Bed & Breakfast is open from May 1st to November 1st. Cost is $200 per night.

Source: Herreshoff Castle – Marblehead, Massachusetts – Atlas Obscura

An Air Canada Boeing Co 737-8 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members onboard suffered an engine issue that forced the crew to divert the aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, the airline says.Shortly after the take-off, the pilots received an “engine indication” and “decided to shut down one engine”, an Air Canada spokesman said on Friday.737 Max: Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ test pilots, say senatorsRead more“The aircraft then diverted to Tucson, where it landed normally and remains.”The incident took place on 22 December.The crew received a left engine hydraulic low pressure indication and declared a Pan-Pan emergency before diverting the flight, Belgian aviation news website Aviation24.be reported.

Source: Boeing 737-8 Max: Air Canada jet shuts down an engine and diverts after mechanical issue | US news | The Guardian