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Top 10 Best Coffee Shops in The World

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Are you someone who loves travelling around while being on the lookout for the greatest cup of joe in the world? If you’re a traveler, you’ll have noticed by now that a new wave of coffee has slowly been taking over the globe in the last decade or so. Great coffee is finally getting normalized so why not search for the greatest places to try out? As adherents of the culture, it’s necessary to educate everyone about great coffee and celebrate the shops that stand out as exceptional. We’ll try to list the 10 best coffee shops in the world for you. It may be a small, specialty shop or a big coffee house. Coutume - Paris, France Coutume is one of the pioneers of the Parisian coffee scene as it was one of the earliest shops to open its doors and offer specialty coffees in the olden days of Paris. They roast fresh beans and approach the art of brewing in some of the most complex, sophisticated manners known to coffee makers, resulting in the perfect cup every single time. Their menu is l...

Management Basics: Determining a Performance Rating

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One of the most stressful parts of the end-of-year process for managers is the dreaded performance rating. This process forces you to boil down all of the work that a person did over the year, all of their accomplishments and misses, into a numeric score (often from 1–5) that may also come with words like ‘meets expectations’, ‘exceeds expectations’, or the unhappy ‘misses expectations’. If you work for a company that h a s a ‘pay for performance’ model, your rating will influence the employee’s compensation. It may be used as an input for promotions, and yes, as a factor in firing or laying off employees. And so while this process is painful, every manager needs to get comfortable with assigning ratings to their engineers, and justifying those ratings to both the person receiving the rating, and potentially to their peers, boss, or other stakeholders who have a say in the distribution of rating scores at the company. Your manager rating is a combination of measurable inputs and your o...

Isles of Scilly: Egyptian vulture seen in UK for first time in 150 years

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IMAGE COPYRIGHT WILL WAGSTAFF image caption The bird was spotted perched in a tree in Tresco An Egyptian vulture has been seen in the UK for the first time in what is believed to be more than 150 years. Described as a "once-in-a-century" sighting, it is thought it may have come to the Isles of Scilly from Northern France. If the "incredibly rare" sighting is confirmed to be a wild bird, it would be the first since 1868, say experts. Birdwatchers are expected to flock to the isles for a chance to spot it before it moves on. IMAGE COPYRIGHT SCOTT REID image caption An Egyptian vulture was spotted on Monday, for the first time in 150 years Isles OF Scilly Travel told the BBC it believed there were now around 40 enthusiasts on the islands trying to catch a glimpse of the vulture. The bird was first seen at Peninnis Head on St Mary's on Monday before moving on to Tresco. There have been two official sightings recorded in the UK - one in Somerset in 1825 and another i...

England vs Croatia: Decision to free Kalvin Phillips in 4-3-3 pays off in Euro 2020 opener

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  At the beginning of both of their warm-up matches before   Euro 2020 , England set up in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Jack Grealish as the No 10 in front of a defensive midfield duo. But the return of   Mason Mount   for their   Euro 2020 opener against Croatia   saw Gareth Southgate switch back to the 4-3-3 shape which served them so well in qualifying, and the decision to go with a less rigid midfield played a crucial role in their victory at Wembley. A well-balanced central three saw Mount and Kalvin Phillips given licence to surge forwards and an obligation to press high either side of Declan Rice sitting deep in front of the defence, and the attacking pair were excellent. Phillips was particularly impressive and it was his assist which finally unlocked the door, gliding away from a couple of tacklers nipping at his ankles before sliding in Raheem Sterling to score. It wasn't just on the ball that Phillips shined. His naturally aggressive style,...