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Science and Engineering Research Board
Statutory Body Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008
Biodata Template
Certificate from Investigator Template
Core Research Grant
Early Career Research (ECR) Award
National Post Doctoral Fellowship
(N-PDF)
Empowerment and Equity
High Risk High Reward
Industry Relevant R&D
Ayurvedic Biology Program
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Core Research Grant (Individual Centric)
Extramural Research (EMR) funding scheme of SERB to academic institution, research laboratories and other R&D organizations to carry out basic research in all frontier areas of Science and Engineering is in limelight for more than four decades since from the inception of SERC. This scheme encourages emerging and eminent scientist in field of science and engineering for individual centric competitive mode of funding. Since the scheme provides core research support to the active researchers, the existing name Extramural Research (EMR) has been renamed as Core Research Grant (CRG).
The scheme provides core research support to active researchers to undertake research and development in frontier areas of Science and Engineering.
Applicants [Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Principal Investigator(s) (Co-PI(s))] should be Indian citizens. Foreign nationals (including OCI and NRI) are also eligible to apply provided they fulfil the eligibility criteria notified by SERB ( SERB Funding Guidelines for foreign nationals dated 27th Oct 2016 ).
The applicant(s) must hold a regular academic/research position in a recognized academic institution or national laboratory or in any other recognized
R & D institution in India.
Private Academic institutions with valid UGC / AICTE / PCI approval, Private R&D Institutions with valid DSIR-SIRO recognition and Voluntary and Non-Governmental Organizations registered under NITI-AAYOG Darpan portal are eligible to host a project.
Faculties recruited through UGC-Faculty Recharge Program are eligible to apply. INSPIRE Faculty, Ramanujan and Ramalingaswamy Fellows are also eligible to apply provided they have at least three and half years of tenure remaining at the time of submission of application.
Investigators who will be superannuating during the duration of the project or already superannuated are also eligible to apply. In such cases, a Faculty/Scientist from the host institute who has at least 5 years of service remaining should be associated as a Co-PI. The host institution should allow the investigator to continue after superannuation and provide required support towards implementation of the project.
The PI and Co-Investigator(s) should hold Ph.D. degree in Science, Mathematics, Engineering or M.D / M.S. / M.D.S. / M.V.Sc degree at the time of applying for grant.
The term "Regular" in the context of CRG refers to the applicants who are appointed against the sanctioned post or in a tenure post, but are likely to be renewed after the end of the tenure.
[Note: Research Associates, Ad-hoc faculties, Guest Faculty, Visiting Scientist, consultant, Project Fellows and Faculty members whose contract is renewed every year are not eligible. In respect of cases that are not mentioned above , SERB reserves the right to determine the eligibility]
Aspirants of NPDF, SRG and CRG(EMR) can submit their proposal only once in a calender year in any of these schemes.
Nature & Duration of Support:
The CRG scheme provides research support to an individual researcher or a group of researchers working in a recognized academic institution or national laboratory or in other recognized R & D institution in India.
The funding is provided normally for a period of three years.
The research grant is provided for equipment, manpower, consumables, travel and contingency. "Overheads" is also be provided to the implementing institution as per prevailing norms of SERB.
Proposals from applicants belonging to National Laboratories/Research Institutions should be in-line with the mandated research work of the lab/institution. (A certificate duly authorised by the Head of the Institution should be uploaded along with the proposal)
National Laboratories and Research Institutions should share 50% of the non-recurring cost of the project. For projects with total cost more than Rs. 80 lakh, 50% of the non-recurring and consumables cost should be shared by the Lab/Institution. If project is approved for SERB support, a certificate from National Laboratory / Research Institution will be required for the same.
Selection & Mode Of Application:
An applicant is eligible to apply only one proposal during a call.
Any proposal technically rejected should not be resubmitted without any substantial revision to any schemes or programs of the SERB.
Not more than one project is allowed at any given time. However, projects under the programs EMEQ, HRHR, IRRD and special calls are exempted from this category. The PI is encouraged to apply for another project six months prior to the completion of the project.
The Call for applications will be notified through the website "www.serbonline.in" and "www.serb.gov.in". The application form along with a proper research proposal highlighting the research work to be undertaken should be submitted online through the website "www.serbonline.in".
The selection will be based on the recommendations of Program Advisory Committee (PAC) constituted by the Board. If required, the applicants maybe called for discussion/ presentation.
Plagiarism:
Proposals submitted must be original in ideation and content. Plagiarism in any form will not be acceptable. All submitted proposals would be subjected to a third-party similarity check and proposals are liable to be rejected if found plagiarised. Any text taken verbatim from other source needs to be identified using quotation marks and proper reference. Applicants are requested to pre-check their proposals for plagiarism before uploading. Proposals found containing plagiarised content will be rejected.
Scientific Social Responsibility:
SERB has adopted Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) Policy to imbibe a culture of social commitment among SERB Grantees. The policy intends to effectively utilize scientific infrastructure and expertise of SERB grantees to benefit other S&T stakeholders especially the less-endowed researchers and the society. SSR activities need to be chosen after approval and depending on the activities chosen additional budget would be provided under separate head to carry out the chosen activities. SERB Grantees need to undertake the proposed SSR activities during their project period.
How to apply online:
For successful online submission of the application the following points may be noted:
Applicant(s) should first register into the online website click here to register
After log-in, applicant(s) are required to fill all the mandatory fields in Profile Detail section under User Profile. which includes Bio-data, Photo, Institute Address etc.
If you have CO-PI in your proposal then ensure that all the CO-PI's are also registered into the system following the same procedure.
Some of the details of your proposal like Project Title (max 500 characters), Project summary (max 3000 characters), Keywords (max 6), Objectives of project (max 1500 characters), Expected output and outcome of the proposal (max 1500 characters), Budget (Manpower,Consumables,Travel, Equipment, Contingency, Overheads ) have to be entered at the time of proposal submission.
Other relevant information of the proposal has to be uploaded in single PDF file not more than 10 MB as other technical document (OTD). Download Template
Complete guideline for Principal Investigator for SERB-online system
Documents required (in PDF) should be in prescribed format:
Biodata (under user profile section) Download Template
Certificate from Principal Investigator Download Template
Endorsement Letter from the Head of Institution Download Template
If project is approved for SERB support, the Quotations of the approved equipment need to be uploaded within one month of the date of the Approval Letter.
Q1: I want to apply for an Core Research Grant scheme for the first time. What is the maximum amount of the grant the Board will fund?
A1: There is no upper limit ( or even lower limit) for a project grant. The budget is decided based on the requirement for its successful implementation. The Investigator should propose a budget which is realistic taking into account the infrastructure and resources available at the implementing institutions. The average cost of the CRG project is Rs.35 lakh for a duration of 3 years.
Q2: Does the Board has any priority areas for funding under CRG scheme?
A2: No. The Board funds all the areas of Science and Engineering without discriminating between disciplines. The proposal will be funded if it has novelty and the investigator has the competence to execute the project.
Q3: I am currently executing an CRG project in the area of Chemical Sciences. I want to apply for an another CRG project in Physical Sciences. Will I be funded another project?
A3: No. The Board funds only one project to an Investigator at a time, except in cases where calls for proposals are invited for specific areas/schemes/programs.
Q4: Are Co-Investigators allowed in CRG project? If they are from different institutions, can the budget be provided separately to both the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator(s)?
A4: Yes. Co-Investigator(s) are allowed in CRG project, provided the work proposed require complementary expertise for its implementation. Separate budget can also be provided to the Co-Investigator (s) even if they belong to different institutions.
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Julie Weise
Historian Julie Weise's grant will transform a podcast into a YouTube series
Editor's Note: Julie Weise is a CLLAS affiliated faculty member. This article originated in Around the O.
Around the O, March 2, 2020—Julie Weise, an associate professor of history, has been awarded a $50,000 public-engagement grant to take her Nuestro South project to the next level, building on a successful podcast series to create a five-part YouTube series.
The YouTube series will showcase the long history of Latinx life in the Deep South, celebrating 100 years of Latinx culture and contributions in the region. The grant was awarded by the Whiting Foundation.
Weise's work will build on a previous seed grant she received in 2018, also from the Whiting Foundation, which was matched by the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She used the funding to collaborate with a team of media-savvy Latinx community leaders and college students to create the Nuestro South podcast.
The podcast filters historical scholarship on Latinx people in the South through the lens of youth who are discovering and celebrating their roots in the region.
"This new dimension in my career has been unexpected and wonderful as I work with brilliant partners to provide the region's Latinx youth an opportunity to discover the histories of their forebears," Weise said.
Phil Scher, divisional dean for social science in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the award stands out because it helps make research accessible to the general public.
"Professor Weise has achieved something important for any scholar: She has been able to take her academic research and scholarship to new audiences outside of the academy," he said. "The Whiting is a wonderful acknowledgement of the kind of exemplary public engagement we value so deeply at the University of Oregon."
Weise said that for the hundreds of thousands of Latinx youth living in the Deep South, many of whom are children of immigrants who settled during a wave of migration in the 1990s, it can be challenging to understand how they fit into the standard schoolbook history of a black-and-white South. Yet, the history of Southern Latinx communities dates back more than a century.
Her 2015 book, "Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910," pioneered scholarship on this under-studied subject, illuminating the lives of Mexican merchants and laborers in interwar New Orleans, Mexican sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, bracero guest workers in Arkansas, migrant workers in rural Georgia and immigrant settlement in the exurbs of Charlotte in the 1990s.
After her book was published, Weise did some radio interviews in the South. Among those who heard her was Erik Valera, a nonprofit leader and community activist in North Carolina. Valera reached out to Weise to say that he felt the stories and insight she presented were very important and that he wanted to explore how to make them accessible to others in the community.
"He said he wanted to see the histories from my book on the smartphone of every Latinx young person in the South," Weise recalls. "As you can imagine, I pretty much fell off my couch. He had faith that the community really cared about this history, and he was right."
This was the origin of the podcast and now the YouTube series.
With the new Whiting award, Weise and her collaborators will take an extended road trip around the South to shoot and edit the YouTube series. In each stop on their trip, college student hosts will interview Southerners about their and their families' connection to local Latinx history, retell the stories of Mexican immigration to the area, and engage local young people in conversations about the past.
"The video series and accompanying social media engagement will give Latinx youth a platform to explore their identities, shape their narrative of belonging and see reflections of themselves in historical figures who worked, raised families and fought for justice in the U.S. South," Weise said.
The Whiting Public Engagement Program is a national grant founded to champion the public humanities in all its forms and to highlight the roles scholars play in using the humanities to advance communities around the country. Weise's grant was one of 14 awarded to scholars who are tackling pressing challenges in communities.
"The judges were deeply impressed with the way Dr. Weise has developed the Nuestro South collaboration," said Daniel Reid, executive director of the Whiting Foundation. "They see her proposed next steps as a model for how to bring fresh scholarship to a public who will not only be interested but will be transformed by it."
—By Lisa Raleigh, College of Arts and Sciences
Tags: Julie Weise, Latinx life Deep South, UO
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Panel Discussion — Immigrants out, "Guestworkers" in: A Hidden History of the Trump Years
Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St.
Passover-friendly refreshments will be served
Organized by Julie Weise, 2018-19 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar
In the United States and across Europe, nation-states are slamming their doors on immigrants and refugees. This nationalist reaction to the diversity that globalization has brought seems to portend depressed immigration levels for the foreseeable future. Yet employers still demand immigrant labor in a growing economy. Even as U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies drove undocumented workers deeper into the shadows, his administration also approved a record-breaking quarter-million temporary agricultural worker visas, known as H2A or "guestworkers." Similar patterns are in effect around the globe.
In this panel, historians join key Oregon advocates for both agricultural and workers' interests to contextualize the "guestworker" phenomenon locally and globally, and ask whether it represents the future of immigrant labor in the United States and beyond.
Michael Dale is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Workers' Justice Project, and non-profit law firm that represents low wage, immigrant and contingent workers with respect to civil employment law problems. He worked for 25 years as an Oregon legal aid attorney, and helped establish the Oregon Law Center in 1995. Over the last ten years he has been engaged in extensive litigation over the rules governing the use of H-2B temporary workers, winning cases in the 3rd, 11th and 4th Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Christoph Rass is one of Germany's leading historians of twentieth-century European labor migration. A professor at Osnabrück University's Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies, Rass concentrates on institutions and knowledge production in migration regimes, forced migrations, and GIS-based modeling of migration patterns. Rass is a recent recipient of the Kalliope Prize for Migration Research from the German Emigration Center.
Jeff Stone is the CEO of Oregon Association of Nurseries and formerly Chief of Staff to Metro Council. Stone has a BS from the UO in political science and has deep experience in Oregon and national political affairs. He has served as an executive and board member of numerous business and nonprofit organizations.
Julie M. Weise is a scholar of twentieth-century Mexican migration history in global context. An associate professor of history at the University of Oregon, Weise is the author of the prize-winning Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015). Her current book project, "Citizenship Displaced: Migrant Political Cultures in the Era of State Control," places postwar Mexican migration history in conversation with parallel histories in Europe and southern Africa.
Cosponsored by the UO Office of International Affairs, the UO Department of History, and the Global Studies Institute's Global Oregon Faculty Collaboration Fund. Part of the Wayne Morse Center's 2017-19 theme, Borders, Migration, and Belonging. The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics encourages civic engagement and inspires enlightened dialogue by bringing students, scholars, activists, policymakers, and communities together to discuss issues affecting Oregon, our nation, and the world.
Tags: Christoph Rass, Farmwokers, Julie Weise, Michael Dale, Trump era, UO, Wayne Morse Center
Tuesday, January 1st, 2019 Events, Farmworker Rights, Public Policy No Comments
Julie Weise Wins 2016 Merle Curti Award for Best Book in U.S. Social History
Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910, written by UO assistant professor of history Julie Weise and published by University of North Carolina Press, has been chosen to receive this year's Merle Curti Award for Best Book in U.S. Social History from the Organization of American Historians.
Corazón de Dixie also received an Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos Award for best book in immigration history from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Professor Weise is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). For more about her book, see: http://cllas.uoregon.edu/6369-2/
Tags: CLLAS, Corazon de Dixie, History, Julie Weise, UO
Sunday, April 10th, 2016 Affiliated faculty, Awards, Books, News No Comments
Julie Weise, "Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the US South since 1910"
McKenzie Hall 375
A conversation between author Julie Weise, UO assistant professor of history, and Natalia Molina, professor of history and associate vice chancellor, UC San Diego.
Julie Weise is an affiliated faculty member of CLLAS. Her new book, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (University of North Carolina Press), was published with support provided by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History.
In addition to discussing the book, Weise will share her experiences working with the UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) on a companion teaching website, corazondedixie.org, and DSC staffers will be on hand to answer faculty questions about possible future collaborations. Refreshments will be served. For more information, see flier linked here.
CLLAS is cosponsoring this event.
Tags: CLLAS, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910, Julie Weise, UO
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Somebody just flunked one of history's stranger tests.
Ross Douthat's recent column provides new ammunition against Ronald Reagan and his theory of Martian invasions. The old President used to say that, after all, east and west would band together if alien invaders appeared in the sky. "Here come the little green men," Colin Powell is said to have remarked when the President got going.
Reagan's idea never sold me, because look at earth. White faces would show up on pre-Columbian, African and Asian coastlines and make deals with local factions. One faction got to do in another until finally all the factions had been broken down. Then the white faces ran everything, and a gaggle of the luckier turncoats trotted behind them. I figure the same would happen if aliens showed up: some clowns would sign on with the invaders. Kent Brockman, an anchorman, welcomed our ant overlords. But I always suspected the clowns would be Republicans.
Now the GOP is undergoing the closest thing to an alien invasion that reality permits. Douthat knows more about Republicans than I do, and he says the party's knuckling beneath the big orange invader because GOP factions—that's the establishment, on the one hand, versus the activists and the media hustlers—can't bring themselves to set aside their differences. Many of the Trump converts, Douthat says, are "clearly motivated by grudges and fears instilled by the party's civil war, and by a sense that even though Trump might represent a grave threat to their vision of Republicanism, it would still be better to serve under his rule for a season than to risk putting their hated intraparty rivals in the catbird seat." For now they'd rather see an outsider on the throne.
So far neither faction has used Trump to destroy the other. But wait, the situation is going to evolve. Because if the factions think the way Douthat describes, they're really not good at thinking. Robert O. Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism tells us, "Crises of the political and economic system made a space available to fascism, but it was the unfortunate choices by a few powerful Establishment leaders that act actually put the fascists into that space." As Paxton presents it, Mussolini didn't become premier through force, and Hitler didn't become chancellor through votes. In each case the ruling order had a choice, and factions of the ruling order—conservative factions, of course: industry, the nobility, the military, and in Italy the throne—decided that their best move was to put Mussolini and Hitler in nominal charge. And once inside, Mussolini and Hitler took over for good. Trump is only quasi-fascist and not big on organization, but he loves power. My guess is there's a big orange face that's going to run the GOP longer than the smart guys bargain for.
A last point. Douthat's column focuses on the party movers-and-shakers, such as they are, and their failure of will. But Republican voters faded too. Trump was on the ropes in Wisconsin, and then the voters who didn't like him decided not to turn out. They weren't calculating how to keep one faction or another off the throne. They just gave up. My guess is they saw no reason to rescue their party. It's done nothing useful and inspires no confidence, not even in its followers. This fact is catching up with people. I hope that includes pious young conservatives who write columns.
Speaking of which. "This is a race where a segment of the Right didn't simply lose its mind, it decided that the mind doesn't matter," writes David French in National Review. Well, wait. When Ted Cruz is the mind's representative, the mind has lost a good deal of value. It's become devoted to debaters' points and legal tricks, and it pursues stand-on-one-leg Bible justifications for making innocent people suffer. But French pursues his point. "Arguments about policy are greeted with accusations of arrogance," he says. "The pointing out of contradictions is cast as condescension. Indeed, the very act of arguing against Trumpism is seen as irrefutable proof of weakness, of 'selling out,' and of fear."
Why does David French hate America? He should sit on the losers bench with prissy Al Gore. The two of them can point out contradictions, talk some policy.
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i realized that it would be a good idea to direct guests once more to our wedding website. i decided the best way to do this would be with a tag that had the website on it. using powerpoint and our signature font i came up with a quick template.
I printed this off on craft paper and sliced it up at the local copy shop, leaving me with 100 informative, but boring, tags.
back at home I used a leaf motif stamp on the blank side.
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after some serious contemplation i ended up with the second one and purchased one roll or 50 yards. once home i cut the ribbon into 11 inch lengths and had victor thread it through the tags.
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next up: the finishing touches!


Winter is coming, and with that, an end to the Second South Project. The contractors worked hard to get the black side of the asphalt facing up so we could open the street. Trees and sidewalk are in, and the concrete bases are in for the new street lights which are scheduled to be installed by the end of November.
We do have a few other items left to complete the street: a retaining wall along the railroad fence with a sidewalk, striping the street, and a laundry list of smaller items.


Introduction:	Which New Mutant once dated a dwarf?
Which New Mutant literally crashed a slumber party?
Which New Mutants speak Latin?
Which New Mutant was once on a serious crash diet?
Who are Corsi and Friedlander?
of awkward and unskilled teenagers.
The series lasted 100 issues and eight years, until Rob Liefeld killed it.
and teachers and preachers and each other, and feeling often insecure.
sword, the Mindless Ones, S.U.R.F.
writing, as well (assisted by Fabien Nicieza).
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girlfriend Juliana Sandoval, his teammates Jaime and Dominic; Sam's co-worker Mr.
the crowd flees in terror. We learn that he is being monitored by Pierce.
first time, rocketing himself and Lewis to safety. Pierce looks on.
her brother Leong and sister Nga. Her dead brother Tran was an evil mutant.
good. He agrees to begin again with the New Mutants.
and Dani attacks them, projecting Shan's fear of war-time helicopters.
beaten off, and Xavier prevents Dani from killing in revenge of her grandfather.
announces that Sam will be joining the team.
Dani to stop this invasion of privacy, and the others have to break her off.
Storm and wondering about their fate.
unknown assailant and awakens in the middle of an advanced training sequence.
monsters including one of the Brood, and takes a bad fall.
gather the New Mutants to his Inner Circle.
was just a dream, but then calls Moira, saying Dani is insane. Dani overhears.
of the Brood and eventually subdued.
augmenting her power to make her fear projections real.
because of a psychosomatic pain that he is unable to overcome.
performing. All counter-attack and defeat the goons.
shows her to be Dani, and disappears with her.
down. Viper uses Dani as a hostage to force Team America to do a job for her.
betrayal and decide to save Dani on their own.
Francisco. Shan threatens to make him kill himself, but he calls her bluff.
Shan possesses Viper, but both teleport away.
the Samurai blows it up, seeming to kill the New Mutants.
Synopsis:	All the Mutants except Shan have survived the explosion last issue.
first refuses, but Sam convinces him not to quit the team.
Club kidnaps Nina while Axe keeps the team busy.
goons while Sam rescues Nina and Roberto beats up Axe.
learn that Emmanuel is in cahoots with Shaw and plans to stop the expedition.
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curare darts and rendered unconscious.
army, while Castro tries to broker a deal with him for mining rights.
escapes, only to be captured by Selene.
Xavier from their minds, shocking them into stopping.
Gallio proclaims them children of the gods and gives them a laurel wreath.
which starts an argument with Sam.
her. Dani escapes but is attacked. Castro shoots Roberto and is felled by Rahne.
He claims to have been sent by Senator Aquilla, whom Gallio then orders arrested.
Roberto and Sam go along to make sure the senator is not killed in the process.


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Granted. The Earth stops rotating around the sun so it's always autumn where you live. Unfortunately, this triggers a major climate disaster that ends up causing the end of the world in less than a decade. Additionally, there are dead leaves freaking everywhere, which is mildly annoying.
I wish people wouldn't interrupt me while I'm still mid-sentence. So rude.
Granted. From now on, people lost their ability to speak in general (except you) so you can speak for as long as you want without interrupting.
I wish I wasn't tired of the world.
Granted. Your love of the world is rekindled. A little too much, in fact. You become so crazy about the idea of experiencing all of what the world has to offer that you end up spending all your life savings trying to do a complete world tour, until you can only afford frozen peas for dinner. Then you become mad at the world again.
I wish Bulbapuck would do an LP/Co-commentary of Dragon Myth with Talps.
Granted. However, the video was recorded in an alternate universe where Bulbapuck is actually mechamind90 and Talps can't speak English (so he's quiet throughout the LP). Here's the link for anybody interested.
I wish I worked at Kojima Productions.
I didn't know about that! Thanks for the link!
In other news, granted! However, Kojima Productions has switched businesses. They now work in sewage reclamation.
I wish... Actually I wish for what Veg wished for. I wish Veg's last wish hadn't been corrupted!
I wish sitting in front of a computer almost all day long was actually good for your health.
Granted! However any sort of physical activity (even walking) is now harmful to your health. All of planet Earth's resources are spent manufacturing and powering motorized couches and chairs for every person on the planet. Humanity soon goes extinct because of the physical activity this work required.
I wish Nifflas' game Uurnog wasn't a Humble Monthly exclusive.
Granted. It's now a Windows Store exclusive. It also requires the new Games for Windows Live(tm) 2.0 client.
I wish I'd glow red whenever I'm in danger.
Granted, but you don't glow green when there are secret passages nearby.
I wish the word "knytt" had some kind of magical property where anyone who reads it immediately figures out how it's supposed to be pronounced.
Granted, but my portmanteau 'knyght' causes the human brain to crash, rendering everyone who has played 'Dragon Myth' catatonic.
I wish I could be enthusiastic about making KS levels again.
Granted, but, well, the level you're working at, is actually Vegetal Gibber's level and you're only editing it.
I wish people lost their ability to speak, because I can't stand stupid quarrels. My head's going to explode.
Granted. In fact, this wish was already granted a few posts ago, so you've just wasted your wish.
I wish someone would buy me a Nintendo Switch.
Granted; someone buys you a Gameboy. It has an on/off switch on the side that was manufactured by Nintendo.
I wish that the established accountancy system, which was designed to be incredibly obtuse so as to stop pirates and other illiterate thieves from the seventeenth century from understanding any record books they may managed to steal, could be reformed to be easier to learn and easier to understand!
Granted, but this somehow causes old-fashioned piracy and highway robbery to make a comeback and become rampant again.
I wish I could instantly cook the dish I want just by hovering my hands over the raw ingredients.
Granted, but something went wrong so you was forced to blew up your house and there's no Harry Potter to save you and turn it back to normal.
I wish my new job (yesss, I finally got the job!) could bring me satisfaction.


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Philip served as the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights from 2014-2020 and has visited and reported on countries including Chile, China, Mauritania, Romania, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. He was previously UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions from 2004 to 2010 and undertook fact-finding missions to: Sri Lanka, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, Israel, Lebanon, Albania, Kenya, Brazil, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, the United States, Albania, and Ecuador. In 2005 he was elected to chair the Annual Meeting of U.N. Human Rights Special Procedures, which brings together all of the Special Rapporteurs, Working Groups, Special Representatives and Independent Experts working on human rights in the U.N. system (almost 50 in total). In 2005-06 he chaired the Coordinating Committee set up to enhance and promote coordination among these different mechanisms.
He has also been the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law since 1996.
Born and educated in Australia (Law and Economics) and California (JSD), Philip taught during the 1980s at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at Harvard Law School. He then became Professor of Law and Foundation Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University, a post he held until 1995. From 1996 to 2001 he was Professor of International Law, and for part of that time Head of Department, at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He was also co-Director of the Academy of European Law and organized the Academy's summer programs in human rights law. Other posts he has held include chief of staff to a Cabinet Minister in Australia during part of the Whitlam Government, and Discrimination Commissioner for the Australian Capital Territory ( Canberra) for three years.
In the field of international law, Philip has been Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law since 1996 and prior to that was the Co-Editor of the Australian Yearbook of International Law. He co-founded the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and was founding Vice-President of the European Society of International Law.
From 1978 to 1984, Philip was an official of the United Nations, working in Geneva on human rights issues. He has worked as a consultant to the ILO, the UNDP Human Development Report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNESCO, OECD, UNICEF and various other inter-governmental organizations.
He has also worked extensively with the non-governmental sector. He worked with the Anti-Slavery Society in London in the late 1970s, was an adviser on human rights and development issues to the International Commission of Jurists in the early 1980s, was the only lawyer on the founding Board of Physicians for Human Rights in the late 1980s, and is currently the President of the Board of the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
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Q: How to run the itertools product for the given list by removing a specific element in the list? In this following dataset (mcve_01.txt):
mcve_01.txt
pos         M1     M2      F1_x     F1_y    Sk1     S2    Sj
16230484    G/G   G/G       G       T        T/T    T/T   T/T
16230491    C/C   C/C       C       T        T/T    .     T/T
16230503    T/T   T/T       T       T        T/T    .     T/T
16230524    T/T   T/T       T       A        A/A    A/A   A/A
16230535    .     .         T       C        .      .       .
16232072    A/A   A/A       A       G        G/G    G/G   G/G
16232072    A/A   A/A       A       G        G/G    G/G   G/G
16229783    C/C   C/C       G       C        G/C    G/C   C|G
16229992    A/A   A/A       G       A        A/A    A/A   A|G
16230007    T/T   T/T       A       T        A|T    A|T   A|T
16230011    G/G   G/G       C       G        C|G    C|G   G/C
16230049    A/A   A/A       T       A        .      A/T   A/T
16230174    .      .        T       C        T|C    T|C   C|T
16230190    A/A   A/A       T       A        G|T    T|G   T|G
16230260    A/A   A/A       G       A        G/G    G/G   G/G
16230260    A/A   A/A       G       A        G/G    G/G   G/G
16232772    A/A   A/A       C       A        C/C    C/C   C/C
16232793    C/C   C/C       T       C        T/T    T/T   T/T
16232793    C/C   C/C       T       C        T/T    T/T   T/T
16232282    T/T   T/T       T       A        A/A    A/A   A/A

I am trying to run a markov model.
Below is my code:
import pandas as pd
import itertools as it

mcve_data = pd.read_csv('mcve_01.txt', sep='\t')

mcve_data.set_index(['pos'], inplace = True)

mcve_list = mcve_data.applymap(lambda c:[list(c)])

Note: I have to convert the values in each columns to list so I can run the required itertools.product or zip depending upon the condition.
def mapfun(c):
    cstr = ''.join(map(str, c))
    if '.' in cstr:
        return '.'

    if '/' in cstr:
        sep = '/'
        fun = it.product

    else:
        sep = '|'
        fun = zip

    return ','.join('g'.join(t) for t in fun(*c) if sep not in t)

Now (below), apply the function to do markov modeling.
mcve_mm = (mcve_list+mcve_list.shift(1)).dropna(how='all').\
applymap(mapfun)

Note: So, in the above code (mcve_list+mcve_list.shift(1)) reads the values from two line of the same column to apply the markov-chain.
print(mcve_mm)

pd.DataFrame.to_csv(mcve_mm, 'mcve_mm.txt', sep='\t', index=True)

The output (mcve_mm.txt) is:
    pos     M1          M2          F1_x    F1_y    Sk1             S2              Sj
16230491    CgG,CgG,CgG,CgG     CgG,CgG,CgG,CgG     CgG TgT TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT         .               TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT
16230503    TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC     TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC     TgC TgT TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT         .               TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT
16230524    TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT     TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT     TgT AgT AgT,AgT,AgT,AgT         .               AgT,AgT,AgT,AgT
16230535    .           .           TgT CgA .               .               .
16232072    .           .           AgT GgC .               .               .
16232072    AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     AgA GgG GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG         GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG         GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG
16229783    CgA,CgA,CgA,CgA     CgA,CgA,CgA,CgA     GgA CgG GgG,GgG,CgG,CgG         GgG,GgG,CgG,CgG         CgG,CgG,|gG,|gG,GgG,GgG
16229992    AgC,AgC,AgC,AgC     AgC,AgC,AgC,AgC     GgG AgC AgG,AgC,AgG,AgC         AgG,AgC,AgG,AgC         AgC,GgG
16230007    TgA,TgA,TgA,TgA     TgA,TgA,TgA,TgA     AgG TgA AgA,AgA,|gA,|gA,TgA,TgA     AgA,AgA,|gA,|gA,TgA,TgA     AgA,TgG
16230011    GgT,GgT,GgT,GgT     GgT,GgT,GgT,GgT     CgA GgT CgA,GgT CgA,GgT         GgA,Gg|,GgT,CgA,Cg|,CgT
16230049    AgG,AgG,AgG,AgG     AgG,AgG,AgG,AgG     TgC AgG .               AgC,Ag|,AgG,TgC,Tg|,TgG     AgG,AgC,TgG,TgC
16230174    .           .           TgT CgA .               TgA,TgT,|gA,|gT,CgA,CgT     CgA,CgT,|gA,|gT,TgA,TgT
16230190    .           .           TgT AgC GgT,TgC             TgT,GgC             TgC,GgT
16230260    AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     GgT AgA GgG,Gg|,GgT,GgG,Gg|,GgT     GgT,Gg|,GgG,GgT,Gg|,GgG     GgT,Gg|,GgG,GgT,Gg|,GgG
16230260    AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     GgG AgA GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG         GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG         GgG,GgG,GgG,GgG
16232772    AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     AgA,AgA,AgA,AgA     CgG AgA CgG,CgG,CgG,CgG         CgG,CgG,CgG,CgG         CgG,CgG,CgG,CgG
16232793    CgA,CgA,CgA,CgA     CgA,CgA,CgA,CgA     TgC CgA TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC         TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC         TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC
16232793    CgC,CgC,CgC,CgC     CgC,CgC,CgC,CgC     TgT CgC TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT         TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT         TgT,TgT,TgT,TgT
16232282    TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC     TgC,TgC,TgC,TgC     TgT AgC AgT,AgT,AgT,AgT         AgT,AgT,AgT,AgT         AgT,AgT,AgT,AgT

So, there are several funky output in the output file. Something similar to GgG,Gg|,GgT,GgG,Gg|,GgT in line 16230260.
I am trying to get rid of those kind of problem.
The problem is with the code at:
    if '/' in cstr:
        sep = '/'
        fun = it.product

when the the c (list) is something like this:
    if '/' in cstr:
        print(c)
        print(type(c))
        sep = '/'
        fun = it.product

Some of the c (read from two lines due to shift) have following structure which I think is the problem.
[['C', '|', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]
<class 'list'>
So, the it.product is multiplying the pipe(|) with remainder of the elements in the other list.
It tried:
if '/' in cstr:
    for x in c:
       while '|' in x:
            x.remove('|')

# but I think this is not updating c but sometimes affecting the c in other columns by borrowing the condition met from previous line.

    sep = '/'
    fun = it.product

I also tried:
    for x in c:
       while '|' in x:
            c == list(''.join(x).strip('|') for x in c)

to convert the list to the string and then strip the pipe(|) and then convert it back to list, but ran into error.
So, the problem is:
How do I remove the pipe(|) if there is any in the c when running it.product for lines/c like:
[['C', '|', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]
<class 'list'>
The expected output for the following kinds of c:
[['C', '|', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]  or [['C', '/', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]
is the same: CgG, CgG, GgG, GgG

A: I would suggest to change the function as follows:
from itertools import product
from functools import partial

def mapfun(c):
    if any(['.' in l for l in c]):
        return '.'

    if all(['|' in l for l in c]):
        fun = zip
    else:
        fun = product

    return ','.join('g'.join(t) for t in fun(*map(mapfun.filt,c)))

mapfun.filt_set = set(['|','/'])
mapfun.filt = partial(filter,lambda l: not (l in mapfun.filt_set))

print(mapfun([['C', '|', 'G'], ['G', '|', 'G']]))
print(mapfun([['C', '/', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]))
print(mapfun([['C', '|', 'G'], ['G', '/', 'G']]))
print(mapfun([['C', '/', 'G'], ['G', '|', 'G']]))

This yields the output:
CgG,GgG
CgG,CgG,GgG,GgG
CgG,CgG,GgG,GgG
CgG,CgG,GgG,GgG

i.e. zip is used for the first example and itertools.product for all following examples.
Explanation:

*

*To figure out if any of the conditions ('.' present in any argument or '|' in all arguments) is true, list comprehension is used: For example ['.' in l for l in c] is a list of boolean values that are true if and only if the corresponding argument contains a dot. Then any is used to check if any of the arguments contains a '.'.

*The variable filt is defined outside of mapfun so that it does not have to be recomputed on every call to mapfun - To note pollute the name space it is added as a property of the function object (see What is the Python equivalent of static variables inside a function?)

*Note that partial(filter, f) is the same as lambda x: filter(f,x)

*The lambda inside partial simply checks if an element is in filt_set and should therefore be removed

**map(mapfun.filt,c) simply filters all arguments using mapfun.filt before passing them as arguments to the selected function f

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iPhone Dock Connector: What Going to a 19-Pin Connector Means
By Daniel Ionescu
A mock-up of what the new dock connector might look like. (Courtesy Blackpool Creative.)
The next version of the iPhone is expected to have a 19-pin dock connector, a drastic change that could disrupt the accessories market that caters to the 30-pin connector that is currently found on the iPhone.
The 30-pin connector has been around for a decade, so it makes sense for Apple to move to a new connector. To make the new iPhone thinner and fit a 4G radio as well, Apple would have to use a smaller dock connector. Currently, the bottom of the iPhone is fully occupied by the 30-pin plug and the speaker grills. But this design has some issues.
Why It Needs to Change
The audio electronics inside the iPhone are actually at the bottom left of the circuit board, explains an unnamed engineer on Quora. Since there is no space for the headphone plug at the bottom of the device, this means that a long flex cable is needed to route the signal to the top of the device, where the headphone jack is.
This design apparently not only adds to the cost of manufacturing because of the complex cable needed to run through the entire phone, but also adds a few minutes when the phone is being put together on the assembly line. Moving to a smaller connector would allow space for the headphone jack at the bottom of the new iPhone (just as reports indicate), as well as lower production costs.
What the Change Will Bring
So will all the dock accessories, like speakers, alarm clocks or car radios, work with a smaller iPhone dock connector? Not out of the box. Accessory manufacturers will slowly start adopting the new plug as new iPhone sales grow, but until then, chances are there will be an easier solution: an adaptor.
To comply with European laws, Apple has already introduced a 30-pin to Micro USB adaptor so that you can charge and sync iPhones with any Micro USB cable (instead of the pricey Apple-labeled ones). So it's no surprise that Apple is reportedly planning to release a 30-pin to 19-pin adaptor that consumers can use with all compatible accessories until the new wave of accessories settles in. Plus, a $10 adaptor (Apple's not known for including such accessories for free) could save you a lot of money instead of buying a new expensive sound dock for your phone. This could also be a bit messy, as my colleague Jared Newman explained.
The smaller iPhone dock connector would also probably push more toward wireless ways of syncing your phone (not charging, unfortunately). You can already sync your phone wirelessly with iTunes (over Wi-Fi), to transfer music, photos and files, and you can play music and videos wirelessly through AirPlay on the Apple TV and other compatible accessories -- so what the dock connector would remain primarily useful for will be charging.
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U-Haul is best known for its rental trucks used to help people move, but they also sell trailer hitches and trailer hitch accessories. U-Haul makes trailer hitches that accommodate all kinds of vehicles, including many cars. Different models of U-Haul trailer hitches can haul up to 24,000 pounds. U-Haul makes and sells all needed trailer hitch parts, including hitch balls, ball mounts, receivers, and brake controllers.
U-Haul makes some small trailer hitches that can be secured onto cars. These hitches usually can't be used to haul as much cargo as heavy-duty trailer hitches found on trucks, but they are still useful. Most car U-Haul trailer hitches can handle loads up to 2000 pounds. These hitches can be bolted onto the car' frame, usually using preexisting holes. This is a better option than welding the hitch to the frame, which can cause electrical problems and can make the frame much weaker.
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U-Haul is a one-stop shop for all towing needs. U-Haul sells all necessary brake controls and electrical wiring needed to make the trailer hitch completely functional. The law requires that trailer hitches be equipped with working brake lights and brakes, so it is vital that consumers make sure they purchase this equipment.
U-Haul is one of the top trailer hitch dealers in the country. U-Haul sells quality trailer hitches and accessories at low prices. Their lifetime warranty is one of the most comprehensive in the industry.


Hundreds of miles from their nearest neighbours, the Republic of Seychelles, 115 islands scattered in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with glorious tropical forests, woodlands and unspoiled beaches, is an extraordinary archipelago is located between 4 and 10 degrees south of the Equator on the East Coast of Africa. It encompasses an area of 455.3 square kilometres and consists of 115 islands of legendary beauty, both granitic and coral, divided in 2 groups: the 43 'Inner Islands' and the 72 'Outer Islands'.
The 43 'Inner Islands' of granite formation centered around Mahé, the main island of Seychelles; Praslin, La Digue, Fregate, Curieuse, Silhouette, Cousin, Cousine, Cerf Island and Round Island are part of this category. These green, tropical forest covered islands are hilly and mountainous and have fine white sandy beaches often framed with huge granite boulders. They are located within 90 kilometers from the main island Mahé with its contrasted landscape of coves and mountains; the highest being Morne Seychellois culminating at 905 m and located on Mahé island. This is where Victoria the Capital is located with 90 % of the population. The majority of people live on the 3 major islands Mahé, Praslin and La Digue.
72 coral islands or 'Outer Islands' including Amirantes, Alphonse, Farquhar, Aldabra are spread to the South West (around 1100 km far from Mahé), Brid and -Denis lie north of Mahé. These coral islands are flat and almost at sea level and have very few people living on them. A few are being developed for tourism with exclusive resorts.
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proof of accomodation and contact details.
sufficient funds for the duration of your stay.
The Seychelles benefit from an equatorial oceanic climate, warm and humid all year round. Temperatures are generally between 24 and 31° C, with an average of 7h of sunshine per day with sea temps between 27 and 29° C. The islands are out of the cyclone belt.
The South East trade winds blow from May to October which is the Austral winter. Uly and October are the coolest months of the year. The Austral summer is from November to April: this is the warmest andmost humid time of the year. The sea is calm, warm but it is also the rainy season.
Whatever the time of the year, the weather is very changeable and conditions may vary from island to island.
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Gill shows why he's the Rally King - Adventure Nation Blog
Gill shows why he's the Rally King
Jagmeet Gill and Chandan Das, triumphant in the 2013 Raid De Himalaya (time-speed-distance [TSD] category), proved themselves worthy winners of the inaugural Uttarakhand Adventure Car Rally.
The three-day rally – through which the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board hopes to raise further resources to assist those affected by the floods that ravaged the Himalayan state in 2013 – saw a close contest among the country's TSD champions. Gill, leader on day one, slipped to fifth (overall) on day two but, showing his class and experience, made up the deficit significantly on the final day. Clearly, there are few better TSD rallyists than Gill, who was driving for Team Maruti alongside co-driver Das.
Finishing runner-up was the husband-wife duo of Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D'Souza, Bangalore's champion rallyists. Meanwhile, the pair of Ajgar Ali, from Haldia (West Bengal), and M. Mustafa, from Tamil Nadu, finished overall third in the rally, moving up from fourth a day earlier.
Rallying!
B. Purushottam, the Dehradun Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Magistrate, was one of several government officials taking part in the rally. He expressed hope that the UACR would have a positive impact on tourism in the state. "The rally will send out a strong message that infrastructure in the state is normal, and Uttarakhand is back on (track) as a premier tourism destination," said Purushottam.
The route taken by the rally touched some of Uttarakhand's favourite adventure and nature destinations, among them Shivpuri (whitewater rafting), Auli (skiing) and Garjiya (on the periphery of the Jim Corbett National Park).
Vijay Parmar, the rally's director, believed the event has fantastic potential to grow into a major motorsport gathering with international participation. "With the great support of the government, the rally saw the participation of most of the TSD rallying champions of the country. Next year, the Uttarakhand Rally can develop as the premier TSD round of the Indian National Rally Championship," said Parmar.
"We are looking at the inclusion of these rally routes in the Raid De Himalaya next year, on its way to Kathmandu," added the Adventure Nation Guru for motorsport. The Uttarakhand Adventure Car Rally was organized by Himalayan Motorsport, the Shimla-based motorsport club which organizes the world-famous Raid De Himalaya, and was supported by Maruti Suzuki and JK Tyres.
Results (by category)
SUVs: 1. Jagmeet Gill and Chandan Das; 2. Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D'Souza; 3. Vishnu Singh and Adithya Anthony
Cars: 1. Ajgar Ali and M. Mustafa; 2. Rajesh Chalana and Yogesh Gupta; 3. Shekhar Choudhury and Suvrajit Dutta
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Economic survey states that there is a strong correlation between prosperity of a state and their participation in international and intra national (inter-state) trade as shown in figures. The only outlier appears to be Kerala (KE) which seems to be doing well and yet not participating in international or intra-national trade. This is partially explained due to the Kerala's economy earning through tourism and remittances which has not been probably factored into as trade. The survey doesn't attribute causation of one on another; it just points out this important fact as a correlation.
 The impact on MMF-RMGs increased gradually over time; by September 2017, the cumulative impact was about 16 percent over other comparator groups.
The figure below shows the growth in clothing exports compared to other labor-intensive and manufacturing goods, which did not receive ROSL. The positive impact on RMGs made of MMF after the package emerges starkly.
While it appears that RMG was making a turnaround at the time of notification, and given that the survey itself doubts the DD approach of isolating the effect, we need to look at the data more closely before jumping to conclusions. Nevertheless, survey has done well to open up this question to public debate.
Top 1 percent of Indian firms account for 38 percent of exports; in all other countries, they account for a substantially greater share (72, 68, 67, and 55 percent of exports in Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and USA respectively). And this is true for the top 5 percent, 10 percent, and so on.


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As you seek to develop and grow your practice, it is vital to continue to be ethical toward the directees you are already seeing.
First, hospitality is key to any direction relationship. Be sure to provide a hospitable waiting room for your directees. Ensure that you have suitable lighting, refreshments and appropriate reading materials while they wait. Be generous—consider providing resources for development, including materials to borrow, such as CDs, DVDs, books and handouts. And, above all, provide hospitable spiritual direction.
Remember that information is important to a healthy and ethical spiritual direction relationship. Do regular progress reviews and check-ins with your directees, preferably every 6 months, in order to ensure that you and your directees are aware of needs, hopes and desire.
Steward directees with the kindness of Christ. Send emails or cards periodically to your directees to let them know you are praying for them. Stewardship also involves clear communication. Be sure to provide a clear outline of what spiritual direction is, what your fees are and if directees will bill cancelled appointments. Call directees in advance to remind them of their appointments, helping them to be accountable to their time and your time.
Indeed, accountability is crucial—not only for your directees but for you as well. Consider setting up an ethical board of volunteers to support you. This board might consist of a technological person with whom you can consult, a spiritual director and a person to hold you accountable ethically. Alternatively, you could choose to report periodically to an accountability structure within your Church. Finally, as a spiritual director, it is vital for you to maintain regular and frequent contact with your spiritual direction supervisor.
Other areas to consider when starting a practice include such things as creating a private practice label or logo for your business; developing a brochure; printing business cards; developing and maintaining a website for your business. Further research into each of these topics will uncover areas of growth and interest unique to each spiritual director and their practice.


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Israel Abbas Puts Fayyad Ouster On Pause
Abbas Puts Fayyad Ouster On Pause
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:17 pm | ה' אייר תשע"ג
RAMALLAH (Reuters) -
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. (Flash90)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to keep Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in office for the next few weeks while the United States tries to revive Middle East peace talks, officials said on Monday.
Abbas accepted the resignation of Fayyad a few days ago, adding a layer of uncertainty to local politics just when Washington had resumed efforts to end the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
However, officials close to Abbas said they expected Fayyad, who is widely respected in the West but much less so among his own people, would carry on in a caretaker capacity until it became clear if anything would come from the U.S. drive.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met both Abbas and Fayyad last week and is expected to return to the region before the
summer to continue his consultations aimed at reviving negotiations that collapsed in 2010.
"It looks like the president will wait to see the result of the two months that Kerry has asked for before he nominates a new prime minister," said a senior official close to Abbas, who declined to be named.
The Palestine Liberation Organization, of which Abbas is the chairman, is due to meet on Thursday to discuss the situation.
This article appeared in print on page 1 of the April 16th, 2013 edition of Hamodia.
PA Parliamentarian Gets 15 Months Prison for Terror Membership
Private Helicopter Strays Over Hizbullah-Controlled Lebanon
Gov't to Authorize Thousands of New Settlement Homes
Palestinian Leaders to Lose Jordanian Citizenship
Israeli Researchers Announce Breakthrough in Coronavirus Treatment


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Docherty inizia ad essere convocata dalla federazione calcistica della Scozia (Scottish Football Association - SFA) per vestire la maglia della formazione Under-17 dal 2008, debuttando il 23 ottobre di quell'anno nell'incontro perso 2-0 sulle pari età della  in occasione delle qualificazioni all'edizione 2009 del campionato europeo di categoria organizzato dalla UEFA, incontro che pregiudica il passaggio del turno delle scozzesi.

Oltre a quello Docherty veste la maglia della U-17 in altre due occasioni prima di passare alla Under-19 impegnata nelle qualificazioni all'Europeo di Macedonia 2010 ottenendo questa volta la terza qualificazione al torneo nella storia della U-19 scozzese. L'avventura all'Europeo non va comunque oltre alla fase a gironi, perdendo i primi due incontri e riuscendo a pareggiare solo con l', anch'essa eliminata dal torneo. Rimasta in rosa anche per le qualificazioni a Italia 2011 gioca i tre incontri della prima fase, qualificandosi per la seconda, poi nei tre del Torneo di La Manga dove va a segno per la prima volta con la maglia della sua nazionale aprendo le marcature con la  nell'incontro poi pareggiato 2-2, quindi in due della seconda fase, dove va ancora a segno portando il risultato sul parziale di 2-1 con l' nell'incontro poi pareggiato 3-3, con la Scozia non riuscire a qualificarsi per la fase finale. Tra il 2009 e il 2011 complessivamente Docherty colleziona 13 presenze siglando 2 reti.

Sempre nel 2011 fa il suo debutto con la maglia della nazionale maggiore, chiamata dal commissario tecnico Anna Signeul che la fa scendere in campo nell'amichevole del 18 maggio vinta per 7 a 2 con la , sostituendo al 61' Rachael Small. Signeul le rinnova la fiducia convocandola, dopo alcune amichevoli, per l'edizione 2014 della Cyprus Cup, dove la sua nazionale perde ai tiri di rigore la finale per il terzo posto con la , e di seguito alle qualificazioni per il Mondiale di Canada 2015, alle qualificazioni all'Europeo dei Paesi Bassi 2017 dove però non viene mai impiegata. Ottenuta la prima storica qualificazione a un Europeo per la Scozia, Signeul decide di escluderla dalla rosa definitiva annunciata il 27 giugno 2017..

La subentrata Shelley Kerr, tecnico della formazione scozzese dall'estate 2017, convoca Docherty in più occasioni nel corso delle qualificazioni al Mondiale di Francia 2019, dove la sua nazionale ottiene la storica qualificazione al suo primo Mondiale femminile, inserendola poi nella lista delle 23 calciatrici convocate redatta il 15 maggio 2019.

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Raimon Panikkar and the Experience of Christian Identity in a Pluralist World – Scotty Greene
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Raimon Panikkar
The late Raimon Panikkar (at right), comparative religion scholar, philosopher, scientist, and theologian, is a true child of both the West and the East. He has been described as a "spiritual mutant", a multi-dimensional person who combines "the polarities of the East and the West, outer and inner consciousness, science and mysticism, mythic and rational thinking, pragmatic involvement in the world and spiritual detachment."
In this talk, Scotty Greene will share how Raimon Panikkar's life and work have guided the formation of his identity in Christ and how Panikkar offers us a model for spiritual unity in the midst of spiritual diversity.In 2009, Scotty Greene ended a 40 year career in politics, law, and public policy advocacy. During what was eventually a three year sabbatical he began expanding on his interest in the experiences and works of Western and Eastern mystics. In 2012, a spiritual retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia led him to enter Emory's Candler School of Theology. In 2014 he received a Masters of Theological Studies with an emphasis on social justice and human rights.
Scotty is an organizer and fundraiser for the Interfaith Children's Movement in Georgia and is member of a planning group for a proposed interfaith symposium at Atlanta's Center for Civil and Human Rights in 2017. He is member of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Decatur where he serves in the lay reader, companion, and adult formation ministries. He was recently elected to serve on the church's vestry beginning in 2016. He and his wife Margaret live in Ansley Park. They have two grown children, son Luke, and daughter Riley. No grandchildren (yet).
PDF – Panikkar Bibliography, Annotated
The Relevance of Near Death Experiences to Your Spiritual Journey – Br. Shankara
Jill Bolte Taylor's Raja Yoga? – Br. Shankara
Ceremony, Ritual and Puja – Elizabeth Katona


This recipe is from one of my favorite food blogs, Delicious Days. I have found so many gems on this site that I can honestly say it is one of the things that inspired me to start my own food blog. Many of the recipes that I go back to again and again come from here, and every time I wander back I find something new to entice me. This cookie recipe is one of the best, in my humble opinion.
Now, if you will allow me to get up on my soapbox for a moment, I'm going to say a word about weighing your ingredients when baking. I know it's not that common in the States. For that reason, I did my best to convert all measurements to the American standard. However… have you ever tried weighing instead? It's so much more consistent, and always results in a finished product that turns out as intended. And it's really not difficult- it's actually easier, once you get in the habit. Decent kitchen scales can be found pretty much anywhere for very little money. Just putting my two cents out there. (If you want to try it with this recipe, click through to the link to the original recipe.) Ok, down off my soap box now. I can't reach the cookie plate from up there.
These are seriously good. They differ from typical chocolate chip cookies in that they are not of the sort that are exceedingly chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside. I know, I know, I really love that, too. But bear with me. These consist of a more crumbly sort of dough, somewhat reminiscent of a shortbread. But they are insanely buttery and melt in your mouth. The shards of dark chocolate melt into liquid pools that drip into the crumbly, browned butter-scented dough and all over the toasted pecans. In case your head hasn't exploded yet, the whole thing is topped off by a tiny sprinkle of fine sea salt. So, no, these aren't Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. But if I handed you the aforementioned cookie, would you be missing those waxy little chips, either? I don't think so.
Melt the butter in a small pan over medium heat and let it brown slowly. Stir regularly using a silicone spatula so the bottom doesn't burn. The butter will foam up, then sizzle. Wait until it starts to smell nutty and reaches a golden brown color. Be careful at this stage, because it happens quickly. As soon as the butter has browned, remove from the heat and pour it into another bowl.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats. In the bowl of a standmixer, combine sugar and eggs, and beat until lightened in color and creamy. Add the cooled brown butter and beat for 2 more minutes. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt into the bowl, and stir just until combined. Lastly, add the chopped chocolate and pecans and mix until evenly distributed.
Scoop tablespoonfuls of dough onto the cookie sheets. A cookie scoop works perfectly for this dough. Sprinkle each mound of dough with a little sea salt and bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden brown, yet the center still feels slightly soft to the touch. Take out, let rest for 5 minutes on the sheet, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
I'm with ya… once you get used to it, doesn't it seem so much easier and tidier? And it just makes more sense!
You had me at "browned butter"! And I always want sea salt sprinkled on my cc cookies now! So good. Can't wait to try these. Why the bread flour?
Hmm well I am in France at the moment and their flour is different. Would all purpose be the same measurement? I kind of know the equivalent if all purpose but not bread flour. Thanks!


Khloe Kardashian's Been Doing *What* To Her Chin?!
Khloe Kardashian has gone through quite the transformation over the past six months.
After upping her fitness game in a big way, eating healthier and then getting her hair chopped into a super hot short bob, Khloe's been looking sexier and more confident than ever.
Because it's now been revealed that Khloe is the new face of Kybella – an injectable product that promises to eliminate a double chin.
According to XOVain, the star is a big fan of the (slightly controversial) product, which works by using deoxycholic acid to destroy fat cells under the chin.
Professor Jeffrey Kenkel, a plastic surgeon familiar with the effects of the drug, said: 'Kybella is identical to a deoxycholic acid, which is naturally produced by the body to absorb fat.
'Kybella takes advantage of that fat-destroying activity to help eliminate the fat below the chin.
Oh, and another thing? It costs £2,000 per appointment. Crikey.
Whilst we're very much of the mind of 'each to their own', we wouldn't recommend injecting anything into your skin until you've had a full consultation with your GP… And Khloe, you're gorgeous natural, too.


Patience and thankfulness are valued qualities in every culture. The famous saying, "Patience is a virtue," comes to mind. This book by Imam Ibn Qayyem Al-Guziyah outlines the benefits of patience and thanfkulness. It details examples and stories, and it shows how Allah rewards people who show patience and thankfulness through the good and bad. It is also an encouragement to exhbit these two valuable virtues.


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Your website list does not include Keith Walklet's YOSEMITE an enduring treasure.
I'd like to list the book. Keith Walklet has some good photographs. It's not listed on Amazon yet though. It's probably too new, as it was just published in 2001. Perhaps when it's carried by major book distributors it will be more available.
Can you describe the book and where to get it?
Here is a moving celebration of Yosemite National Park in lucid text and stunning photographs. From its thundering waterfalls and vertical granite crags to its awe-inspiring big trees and fascinating wildlife, all aspects of the park are beautifully portrayed. The book's multiple features include over 75 full-color images, historic narrative and photos, Yosemite's scenic gems, the four seasons, wildlife and natural history, and Yosemite geology and waterfalls.
This is the perfect souvenir for those wanting to remember their Yosemite visit, a great introduction to the park for newcomers, and a gorgeous reminder of Yosemite's value and its need to be protected for the future.
Keith S. Walklet is an internationally published photographer, who spent 14 years living and working in Yosemite. His photos have appeared in Audubon calendars, National Geographic Books, and Sierra Club Books, among others.


Android Wear, Google\'s Android-based smartwatch OS is being updated to Android Oreo soon. The update doesn't bring much in the way most recent features and is particularly mostly focusses on back-end optimization. It can do still bring several other changes though, including Touch Lock that could give the touchscreen associated with a watch to generally be locked, so the smartwatches won\'t suffer the pain of random taps over the touchscreen when submerged. If you ever own an Android Wear tool and wish to know but if your system is permitted an Oreo update, Google has released a list of devices that happen to be compatible. However, you cannot find any word on as soon as the updates might be presented. We'll help keep you updated since we get to know more.
Even if you have a huge scale rollout of Oreo for smartwatches, you can find several pressing problems have to be addressed for Android Wear devices. One of the numerous factors that have caused Android Wear\'s growth to stagnate, is always that most consumers don\'t see the requirement of a smartwatch to accompany their smartphone. Furthermore, existing Android Wear users are unlikely to look at upgrading their devices when new models are let go because there isn't significantly you can contribute with a smartwatch in terms of features. Smartwatches, generally speaking, remain in the nascent stage of their life and haven't made most of an impression available yet.


University of Nottingham > Blogs > Public and Social Policy > Criminal justice policy > Candid cameras?
According to a report in the Daily Mail, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, wants all householders to install 'eye level' CCTV cameras in their homes. The Commissioner believes that more scene-of-crime footage will help police forces take advantage of technical improvements in facial recognition software by providing matches with the 12 million images they already hold on their database of 'suspects and offenders'.
Big Brother Watch and other campaigners against the proliferation of CCTV in both public and private space were quick to condemn Sir Bernard for his 'Orwellian' ambitions. The Daily Mail went on to quote recent research from the College of Policing suggesting that CCTV has only a limited impact on property crimes and no effect at all on violence.
In one sense, what Sir Bernard is calling for is entirely consistent with a long term trend of responsibilization – the reallocation of responsibility for preventing crime from the state and its agencies (such as the police) to individuals, families and businesses. As criminologists like David Garland have observed, responsibilization represents a gradual but potentially fundamental shift in the relationship between state and citizen, government and governed.
More remarkable still perhaps is that Sir Bernard continues to be so concerned about catching burglars when figures from the Office for National Statistics show that, in 2011/12, households were three times less likely to be a victim of burglary than they had been in 1995. This is not to underestimate the impact of burglary on its victims. But the fact remains that the most potent and persistent threat to security in the home comes not from outsiders, from threatening strangers breaking in to steal property, but from violence visited on people – typically women and children – from within the supposedly safe space of the household itself.
The quick fix provided by CCTV and facial recognition software will do little or nothing to solve the problem of domestic violence; and it is tempting to see Sir Bernard and his eye level cameras as a passing fad: a depressingly familiar case of a boy who should know better getting distracted by some shiny new toys offering a misguided technical solution to the wrong social problem.


Spelling had the crowd on the edge of our seats. We had been instructed by Jesse Sheidtower, the editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary that revealing gasps or groans by the audience must be kept in check, but it was hard to comply, as famous literary contestants bravely sounded out the letters in some truly perilous words (such as "barouche").
The annual Spelling Bee was thrown at The Standard Hotel's High Line Room by CLMP, Harper Perennial and Penguin Books. The brave authors involved have all proven their wonderful, creative power with words as language professionals, but when it comes to spelling—the practical side of being a scribe if you will, only one could triumph. A feat made harder or easier depending on your constitution by the delicious jalapeno infused tequila margaritas flowing freely.
"I played Carnegie Hall and I wasn't this nervous," said Rosanne Cash when it was down to just her and Patricia Marx. Yet, Cash won the crown with Ischium, the curved bones in the pelvis.
Thrilling, glamorous and nerdy, the Bee was linguistic competition at its best. We eagerly await next year's spelling heavyweight challenger.


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December 23 2020 By dvirtue Bishops, Safeguarding and Jonathan Fletcher
They have already been shared in the public domain. But the fact of an inhibition on Fletcher's ministry was important because of his powerful and influential hold over so many clergy and institutions at the time. He had for decades enjoyed real power. This he possessed through patronage, wealth, social charisma and a huge range of contacts. In particular, there was an entire generation of evangelical clergy, now in their 50s, who looked to him as their mentor.
December 19 2020 By dvirtue Medical and Mercy Ministry at a Refugee Camp in the Diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria
In 2019 and 2020, this violence has reached a crescendo in Kaduna state. Many IDP camps have sprung up overnight in areas near our rural clinic there. This is the story of our mission of bringing medical care and humanitarian help to one of these IDP camps.
December 19 2020 By dvirtue The Incarnation is for ever and not just for Christmas
The writer to the Hebrews, however, views Jesus with bifocal vision, seeing Jesus in depth. We are introduced to the Son's divinity at the very outset in chapter 1 and verse 3, 'The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.' That is who the Son was and is and ever will be- God.
December 17 2020 By dvirtue Jericho march in DC: Coming-out party for a movement journalists haven't really covered
Turn your attention to the folks attending a "Jericho march" in Washington DC last Saturday where a mix of evangelical Protestants, Catholics and Messianic Jews claimed that President Trump had indeed won the election (but it was stolen) and that somehow, miraculously, God would see to it that he, not Joe Biden, will be inaugurated next month. This might require use of military force or militias.
December 16 2020 By dvirtue Sydney Evangelical Anglican Rector Calls Fellow Evangelicals to Repentance
Sadly, the testimony that reaches my ears on a regular basis tells me that we often do not manage our own culture and systems well. We are not very good at managing the operations of power and authority. And I am aware how I personally have contributed to and benefitted from this culture. I know that I have mishandled my power. Are we really committed to own ongoing [edit:] repentance as individuals as as a result, reformation as an institution?
December 11 2020 By dvirtue COVID-19 Where is God in all this?
The authors have had the courage to address media headlines that require a response, such as professional carers refusing to care in the absence of PPE (personal protective equipment), and families being prevented from visiting and 'being there' for their much-loved relatives. The reader is given known facts relating to COVID-19 along with insight around challenges clinicians are facing, where the rules relating to care are frequently updated.
December 02 2020 By dvirtue The Early Church on Property, Riches, and Poverty -- A Response
The major problem with this objection, however, is that it smuggles in the idea that the earliest Christians believed private property morally belonged to whoever held legal right to it. While the texts of the New Testament do not have strong, explicit claims about private property, the witness of Christian leaders writing in the few hundred years following the first generation of the apostles is incredibly clear: God has a different idea of what belongs to whom than modern Americans do.
December 01 2020 By dvirtue COVID-19 VACCINE: Are Clergy First Responders, or Last?
So who goes first?
The Centers for Disease Control is apparently drawing up priority guidelines as to "essential" recipients, and it is thought that the elderly and "first responders" will go to the head of the line. I have heard no mention of clergy being on the list of essential workers.
December 01 2020 By dvirtue JOHN PARKER'S STORY: MERMAIDS, LEAVING THE C OF E AND NOW A CHURCH PLANT
Ever since my conversion in 1988, a verse of the Bible has been very precious to me: 'Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels' (Mark 8:38). This was one of the many verses which guided my stand against Mermaids. Why did I feel the need to take a stand? I was convinced that what they were promoting was harming, and would harm, the children in the school.
November 26 2020 By dvirtue Anglican Soul-Searching About the Occult
Christians are especially vulnerable. We should refrain from use of Tarot cards and Ouija boards, never participate in seances or shamanic rituals, never purchase occult objects, or visit places that the local populations perceive as inhabited by spirits.


Check your harness again. A lot of 2003's have the wiring and plug for the 2nd horn taped off. If it isn't there then just tap into the existing horn's wiring and you can find compatible electrical spades or modify them to fit your new horn. Or can go to your dealer's parts dept with your horn and match it up with one of the connectors they have in stock.
The second connector on our 2003 was taped up to the harness going to the OEM mounted horn.
Our 2003 was built in Dec. 2002, maybe they were still using up leftover 2002 wiring harness.
Can't you plug the second horn on the same harness ?


Interesting Facts: As Mega Lucario, its cream fur becomes longer, and its thighs slim down. It develops more spikes on the back of its paws, of which have turned crimson. Its aura-sensing appendages grow longer, and two of them are tipped in crimson. Its shoulders also possess a spike each. Its aura heightens throughout its body, which formed black markings on its blue fur.
NOTES: This model has two main start points: the ears and the spike that goes inside the chest. The head is closed at the spike at the bottom and the body is closed at the bottom of the toes. There is a time to glue everything to it, in a way that the parts won't stay in the way while building, the order indicated by the numbers provides this. Also, there are a lot of lines to be folded on this one, they are indicated by red lines on the pdo, fold them smoothly. The hardest part is the neck fur, take your time there; fold the lines, follow the instructions and the numbers and it will build pretty well. Plenty more info included on the template, along with colored tabs to guide your build, but the use of the pdo is still indicated.
this is so awesome!i did not expect a mega so soon!thanks so much!
Printing this first thing tomorrow. Lucario has been my favorite ever since the Lucarioand the mystery of Mew movie. Once I saw Mega Lucario, I had a fangasm <3 And now, this. I have NEVER been so excite about ANY papercraft EVER in my life. You guys mean the world to me! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I still only finished the head today, but U'm a bit concerned about his balance. Does he sand on his own or are there any tricks that can be done to make him stand withouth a base?
To make the model stand without a base(If it doesn't stand already) you can put weights in the feet, like coins.
Just print out the base separately, and possibly adjust the size to fit the different model.
No, it won't stand on it's own, I used some coins in the feet, toes to be more exact. The inctruction relative to this is included on the template, last page, with some other notes about the model on ther other pages.
Really Amazing!!!! But waiting for Ninetales..
I SO WANT TO MAKE THIS NOW!!!
Nice! Will you desing Greninja soon?


Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Mak v., n.
I. v. A. Vbl. forms — inf. and pres.t.: as above; pa.t.: med (Sh. 1891 J. Burgess Rasmie's Büddie 15, 1949 New Shetlander No. 16. 43), medd (Abd. 1924 Scots Mag. (Oct.) 57; Sh. 1949 New Shetlander No. 19. 26); maid; meed (Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 6; Cai. 1909 D. Houston 'E Silkie Man (1935) 21; Ork. 1911 Old-Lore Misc. IV. iv. 184); rarely makkit (Slg. 1950); pa.p.: made. [med, mɛd, s.Sc. + †mɪəd].
I hope you mak' weel at the boat-building.
Some noo made wye their teeth tae pyke.
A small wiry man, uncomfortable in his stiff, shiny black suit, his starched dicky and tight "made tie".
To "make" a perfect work of art, in the sense which underlies the old Scots word "makar", or poet.
Masons maks steens, but they dinna brak them.
Nowadays it cannot be expected that young women will sit "makkin" hour after hour as their mothers did before them.
An' mak' the grun we jeest cuidna.
Do you get any ground to put potatoes in? No, only I got a little this year to make potatoes in the place I have spoken of. . . . A few years ago we were forced to make potatoes for the proprietor; for fear of vengeance we submitted. The people of four townships made them on our peat ground.
9. tr. To treat dung in a midden so as to mature it properly (Arg.1 1937), to make manure; intr. of the dung itself: to mature, become fit for use (Cai., Abd., Per., Lth. 1962).
Mony's the time I haud my tongue till my hert's that grit it's jist swallin' in blobs an' blawin' like the parritch whan it's dune makin', afore I tak it frae the fire.
Daur to mak or mell with the literal meaning thereof.
"Life's a shortsome thing", quo' she, "the meanin' doesna mak'".
Her father made a bow o bere, Her uncle he gae twa pound mair.
Na, güd trüth! I mak it's idder; . . . An so I says, "I hear da voe, I mak he's blaain harder".
To make rain, snow, sleet etc. is to rain, snow, sleet, etc.
Da sea med; da line med.
The kye began tae mak.
A player, or his ball, is said to be "made", when his ball is sufficiently near the hole to be played on to the Putting-Green next shot.
He's awfu made wi himsel, noo that he's nae weel, bit his wife says there's little the maitter wi him, and that he's sair made stringin ingins.
"There's nae mak in a man aifter he's thirty"; his character is formed before that age.