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Following a recent reorganisation within the Holker Group, a new role of Graduate Data Analyst is to be created to support the Holker Group Reporting Function. This is a new given working within a small team.

Although basically we are looking for data analyst/reporting skills, there will be a need to accept tasks in other areas of the IT/Business cycle.

Skill Requirements:

As a data analyst, you will need to

● Develop and track key performance indicators, using data dashboards, graphs and visualisations.

● Manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data sets relating to the employer's business.

● Mine and analyse large and diverse datasets, drawing out key information and presenting them successfully to management using Microsoft BI.

● Prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders using business analytics reporting tools.

● Gather, understand and document detailed business requirements using appropriate tools and techniques.

● Identify areas to increase efficiency and automation of processes.

● Develop records management processes and policies.

● Identify, evaluate and implement external services and tools to support data validation and cleansing.

Salary: £20-25k dependent on experience

Hours: Normal office hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm but the person appointed (委任的) will be required to work extra hours that are reasonably required to achieve their duties.

Staff Benefits (员工福利):

● Yearly Leave

● Company Pension

● Company Discounts

● Free On-site parking

Please apply providing your CV (简历) and covering letter to Glyn Biggs – Glyn@holker.co.uk or by mail to The Estate Office, Cark-in-Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 7PH

Closing date for applications: 16th October 2022.

There are summer blockbusters (大片), and then there's "Top Gun: Maverick."

The Paramount film, featuring Tom Cruise's return to the skies as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell over 30 years after the hit 1986 original, won the domestic box office (国内票房) over the Labor Day weekend — bringing in $7.9 million for the four-day holiday.

That makes "Maverick" the only film in history to take the top spot on Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend.

It's just one of the film's notable financial achievements. It crossed the $700 million mark in ticket sales, passing Marvel's "Black Panther" to become the fifth highest-grossing film in North American history, and has made $1.4 billion worldwide since opening in May.

In another sign of "Maverick" staying power, the movie boasts a box office multiple (倍数) of roughly 5.5, which means its current domestic haul is 5.5 times that of its opening weekend total. That's unheard of in contemporary Hollywood, as most big films have a multiple of around 2.5.

But "Maverick" fans kept coming back to theaters throughout the summer, so much so that the film made at least one million dollars a day for 75 straight days.

That type of financial longevity not only speaks to the film's quality — it earned a 96% score on review site Rotten Tomatoes — but serves as an old-school success story at a time when theaters really needed one.

"There are not enough words to describe the importance of the box office performance of 'Top Gun: Maverick' to the industry, having come at a time when naysayers (怀疑者) remained doubtful of the ability of the movie theater to draw audiences," Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore (SCOR), told CNN Business. "Truly a watershed event."

Hollywood simply does not produce summer blockbusters like this anymore.

While several recent movies have done quite well, like 2019's "Avengers: Endgame" and 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home," such releases are typically "front-loaded," meaning they open to huge numbers only on the first weekend.

One of the greatest sources of concern for Alaina Castillo has been the letter R.

Rolling Rs is at the heart of learning Spanish and one of its most challenging trills (颤音), especially for those unaccessible to the language regularly as a young child.

This is a lesson the 21-year-old singer spent years learning in and out of school. And it's one that has paid off for Castillo, particularly on TikTok (抖音), which has made efforts to train its Spanish creators.

The Houston native is part of a flourishing Spanish and Latinx creator community that has attracted huge followings through videos that briefly translate cultural traditions and history for a young and captive TikTok audience.

"TikTok is a window to the world, and we've seen people across the worldwide Latinx and Spanish connect with one another on the platform through shared stories and experiences," Kudzi Chikumbu, TikTok's director of creator community, told CNN over email.

TikTok videos from Spanish creators are also getting consumed more than ever.

TikTok hashtags (主题标签) #Latino, #Latina, #Familia and #Comida, among others, grew in use by more than 185% since last year's Spanish Heritage Month, according to data shared by TikTok spokesperson Cynthia Dew. The hashtags #Latino and #Latina have more than 62 billion views combined to date, Dew added.

Millions of those views belong to Castillo, who joined TikTok roughly a year ago to share original Spanish and English songs, as well as covers.

When she started making music, Castillo thought she'd be singing in English. That changed after her family encouraged her to write records in Spanish after learning the language in high school, Castillo told CNN.

"There's a lot of different opinions when it comes to Latinx or people like me who are learning Spanish, so I made it my job to write records that bridge the gap between Spanish speakers and those who want to learn but were never taught," she said.

Kwanzaa may be a festival celebrated by millions of African Americans and pan-Africans, but it has only been around for a few decades (十年). Introduced to the United States in 1966 as a ceremony to welcome the first harvest to the home, the festival, which takes place from December 26 to January 1, is a celebration of life, unity, family, and culture.

Featuring feasts, music and dance, and a devotion and recommitment to different principles (信条), the festival was created in the middle of the Black Freedom Movement, at a time when it was felt that cultural grounding was needed.

Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University in Long Beach, is responsible for bringing the festival to life. After the Watts violence in L.A., Dr. Karenga searched for ways to strengthen the African-American community. He paired the practices with traditions of several different harvest celebrations on the African continent, and although it is celebrated around the Christmas period, it perhaps has more similarities to Thanksgiving or the Yam Festival in Ghana and Nigeria.

There are five common sets of values that are central to the week-long activities: ingathering, reverence, commemoration, recommitment, and celebration. There are seven principles of Kwanzaa, meaning first fruits in Kiswahili, a language spoken in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The first fruit celebrations appear in ancient and modern times in classical African civilizations.

These seven principles are known as Umoja, meaning unity; kujichagulia, self-determination; ujima, collective work, and responsibility; ujamaa, cooperative economics; nia, purpose; kuumba, creativity; and Imani, faith. There are seven candles used during the festival, and like, the Jewish Hanukkah, these candles are used to represent the principles.

On December 31, participants celebrate with a plentiful meal, often featuring good meals from various African countries.

The number of Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa has changed greatly over the years, and with as many as six million getting involved in the 1980s, Kwanzaa became a mainstream holiday. Now, however, numbers have paled, but it still remains an important cultural touchstone (试金石) for many African American communities.

They say that children learn languages the best. . We asked some of the polyglots (通晓多种语言的人) in TED's Open Translation Project to share their secrets to mastering a foreign language. Several basic principles are as follows.

Get real. Decide on a simple, achievable goal to start with so that you don't feel confused. German translator Judith Matz suggests: "Pick up 50 words of a language and start using them on people — ."

Play house with the language. The more you invite a foreign language into your daily life, the more your brain will consider it something useful and worth caring about. "Use every opportunity to get involved in the new language," says Russian translator Olga Dmitrochenkova. , read kids' books written in it, watch subtitled TED and TEDx talks, or live-narrate parts of your day to an imaginary foreign friend.

. Dmitrochenkova has a great idea: "A funny thing like resetting the language on your phone can help you learn new words right away," she says. Ditto for changing the language on your browser (浏览器). Or you can seek out more structured learning opportunities online. Dutch translator Els De Keyser recommends Duolinguo for its gamified (游戏化) approach to grammar, and Anki for memorizing vocabulary with its "intelligent" flashcards...

Make new friends.  — it will teach you to naturally express your thoughts, instead of mentally translating each sentence before you say it. Find native speakers near you. Or search for foreign penpals or set up a language connection online, where two volunteers help one another practice their own languages.

A. Let technology help you out

B. and look up them in the dictionary

C. Do not worry about making mistakes

D. and then slowly start picking up grammar

E. Communicating in the new language is key

F. But that doesn't mean that adults should give up

G. Stick every object in your house in this language

Jayce Crowder began noticing when he was in kindergarten that he looked different from his classmates. They had two 1. He had one.

It started when one boy 2 at him, said his mother, Cortney Lewis. He returned home with 3: Why am I different? Why me? Why? Lewis 4 she didn't know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son's questions when she had never found those 5 herself?

A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a

6 story about Trashaun Willis, then 14. He had become an Internet hit after

7 videos of his slam dunks (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was 8 most of his left arm. At the time, it seemed that 9 Trashaun would simply be an 10 moment for Jayce. He'd see a role model with a similar defect (缺陷). Then a family friend 11 the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a 12 with Trashaun to build

Jayce's 13.

The boys met at Washington Middle School a couple of months later and

14 bonded at first sight, because both of them had the same problem. The day was not spent 15 themselves in self-pity — it was 16 fun. Trashaun also told the boy not to let anyone's 17 shake his confidence.

18 that meeting, Lewis has seen a(n) 19 difference in her son, who is now in second grade. He recently started wrestling and loves it. Lewis points to Trashaun's 20. As for Trashaun, his relationship with Jayce made him look forward to helping more kids in the future.

We have a problem that is deeply rooted in our world today. When it  (come) to the holidays, people tend to forget that it's the season of giving rather than receiving. We tend to be more  (interest) in what we'll receive on Christmas morning instead of looking at the holidays as an opportunity  (help) out those who don't have it as good as we do. So how can we change the culture around the holidays and make sure that people are emphasizing the time to give as much  they are looking forward to opening up their stockings? This is a question worth  (think) about. Giving  (selfless) is the right thing to do, though many of us  (challenge) by the task. Whether or not we have much money to spare, it isn't always easy to give away  we have worked so hard for, especially when we have set financial goals — saving for retirement, a vacation or a  (rain) day. Even with so many reasons to be unwilling, the advantages of giving outweigh them all. When we give to those in need, we make a positive difference  the lives of others and our own.

增加：在缺词处加个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Listening to English radio programmes help me get used to how fast native speaker talk. I also repeat what I hear to help me to experience the feeling of language. Sometimes I even record my voice so I can listen to my pronunciation and compare it with the radio host! My biggest headache is why to be polite in English. It's much easier to just say "Open the window!", but in English that can sound really terribly. I have to think about who I'm talking

to and then decide whether to say it, "Open the window, please!" or "Could you open the window, please?" or even a long one "Would you mind open the window, please?"

1）应聘原因；

2）个人优势。

注意：1）词数100左右；

2）适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mike,

……

Yours,

Li hua