Fiddler's Green talks about folklore of the world through songs of the South Asian subcontinent, sonically connecting them with humane stories: of shires in Middle Earth, of deserts in West Africa, merging with the streets of Havana and Puerto Rico or the wild trekking trails of Nepal or even, the Appalachian mountains.
The band has collaborated with the famous Irish harp player and singer Anna Tanvir and French Gypsy jazz guitar player Yann Beaujouan, along with several other musicians from France and England.
One of the most unique vocalists to have hit the world music scene, Arko's high tenor and natural huskiness is unique to sub continental contemporary music. Formally trained in Indian classical music, Arko is equally versatile with Western and Indian folk songs, blues, soul and tribal music styles which is what gives Fiddler's Green its unique blend of the tradition and the modern.
He has been travelling all over Europe and has collaborated with several other projects in France, England and Germany and has played in eminent music festivals in Europe. He is also a popular playback singer having sung in several films, soaps and serials in Bengal and has been nominated for national music awards in India, for some of his songs. He has been researching on the roots of Indian music, trying to make a bridge with folk forms from around the world. A documentary called Bhorsha Thakuk Bangla Gaane was made in Bangladesh on him and stories of his travels with music in 2014, discussing the evolution of Bengali folk music since the last four centuries.
Along with being a singer, Arko plays the Kazoo and the ukulele as well as the nylon string guitar. He has recorded and released albums with several other folk and electronic projects from India and Europe. He also has a solo album called Ghater Kotha which is available on the internet for listening and purchasing.
12 Dhaka Sufi Festival, 2015 Bangladesh.
Diptanshu Roy is perhaps the only Bluegrass mandolin player in India, and his renditions of Bengali folk melodies highlight unlikely parallels between the folk traditions of Bengal and Appalachia. He also plays European and other Indian folk styles on the mandolin. He has collaborated with several folk artists and is well acclaimed for his incredible musicianship.
He has played in many popular film scores including Piku, Nirbaak, The Bongs Again, Neellohit and Praktan. Also a Creative Director at one of the leading advertising agencies of India, Diptanshu has a great fan following for his outstanding musicality. He is the founder of Folkpick, an organization promoting and archiving folk styles of India. He is influenced by the music of Lalon Fokir, Bill Monroe, David Grisman, Andy Statman, John Hartford, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
He is the man with the true essence of folk at heart. Founder member of the city band Cassini's Division he runs a designing house in Kolkata named Grinning Tree and a Web Design & Development company by the name Digerati Webcrafts.
Shamik has been an ardent music listener of music across the world. He is the Bass man and the soul of the band, with immense control over intricate musical rhythms and styles like Spanish, Afro, Latin, Funk, Hip hop etc. Also a true traveler at heart he takes keen interest in researching on folk musicians in Bengal. He has been associated with several folk festivals in Bengal. Shamik is earthy by nature and also works as a film editor. His influences are from Gour Khyapa to Bob Dylan, S D Burman to Miles Davis etc.
Ritoban Das is a well known percussionist/ drummer from Kolkata. He is immensely skillful in playing an array of percussion ranging from Indian to Central Asian to African and Latin American and he has been a regular drummer with city band Cassini's Division. He has also been a part of the Orient Express, the only authentic afro-latin band from India. He has collaborated with various folk artists such as Kartick Das Baul and Basudev Das Baul from Shantiniketan. He is an active member in the organizing committee of the Jadavpur Baul Fakir Utsav and has been a part of Tanmoy Bose's Sufi Sutra where folk and Sufi artists from all over the world came together to play under one stage.
Ritoban traveled to France twice with Arko in 2013 and 2014 to play in several festivals and concerts there with projects Crossover, Ashram and Barista. His versatility and expertise is the heart of the band.


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governor walz inks approval for soy innovation campus
Soybean crush, biodiesel facility aims to reignite Northwest Minnesota's ag econopmy
Funding for a soybean crush and biodiesel facility in northwest Minneota is no longer a pipe dream for Minnesota agriculture. On Thursday, Gov. Tim Walz signed the omnibus agriculture finance bill, paving the way for $5 million in funding for the Soy Innovation Campus at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
"This is a dream come true for farmers in northwest Minnesota," says Mike Skaug, who farms near Crookston in Polk County, and is a director with the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA). "We've always viewed the Soy Innovation Campus as a game-changer for our region's economy, and we're grateful the legislature and Walz administration see the same potential that we do."
Throughout the 2019 legislative session, MSGA directors were a constant presence in St. Paul, meeting with legislators and Gov. Tim Walz's administration to highlight the education and economic benefits a soybean crush and biodiesel facility would bring to northwest Minnesota.
"MSGA couldn't be more thrilled to see that this project will come to fruition," says MSGA President Michael Petefish "Although there's much more work to be done, today is a moment to celebrate the farmer leaders who worked together proactively toward a common goal, took this big idea and ran with it."
The funding will go into effect in the second half of the biennium budget in July 2020.
The University of Minnesota Extension, along with the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC), conducted an economic impact study of a soybean crush and biodiesel facility. The numbers show the Soy Innovation Campus has the ingredients to reignite northwest Minnesota's agriculture economy, where more than 1.5 million acres of soybeans were harvested in 2018. Soybean production throughout northwest Minnesota has increased by more than 300 percent in the past 20 years; the 11 counties that would benefit from the SI Campus produced more than 62 million bushels of soybeans in 2018.
"With the ag economy suffering throughout Minnesota, this funding couldn't have come at a better time," says MSR&PC Chair Patrick O'Leary. "This was a team effort and I'm proud of the Council for the hard work they put into this project on behalf of Minnesota's soybean farmers."
According to the UMN study, the construction of the soybean and crush facilities would generate $134 million in economic activity and add an estimated 820 jobs, contributing nearly $323 million in new economic activity across northwest Minnesota. The plant would create 80 to 100 direct jobs and have an estimated payroll and benefits of more than $5 million.
When fully operating, the facility could increase the price of soybeans in the region by an estimated 10-to-20 cents per bushel.
"We appreciate the support of legislators throughout the state, as well as Gov. Walz's administration," says MSGA Executive Director Joe Smentek. "We swung for the fences on this one, and to see this project closer to becoming reality is enormously gratifying for our organization and a testament to our farmer leaders and lobbying team in St. Paul."
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Information about Cabinet
The Cabinet is the decision making body at Bromsgrove District Council. Bromsgrove District Council has adopted the "Leader and Cabinet" model.
Currently six Councillors sit on the Cabinet. The Leader of the Council presides over meetings of the Cabinet.
Each of the Cabinet Members represents a particular subject area or "portfolio". At present the portfolios are as follows:
Councillor K. J. May – Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Economic Development, Town Centre and Strategic Partnerships
Councillor G. N. Denaro – Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Finance and Governance
Councillor M. A. Sherrey – Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services and Community Safety
Councillor P. Thomas – Portfolio Holder for Planning and Regulatory Services
Councillor M. Thompson - Portfolio Holder for Leisure, Culture and Climate Change
Councillor S. Webb – Portfolio Holder for Strategic Housing and Health and Well Being


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The fund is different to pure growth orientated funds and is best summed up as capturing steady growth and low risk cash returns from high quality companies.
We have recently met growth fund managers specialising in Europe but failed to find anything which stands out. However, after meeting the manager of the Schroders European Alpha Income Fund it highlighted that funds which can combine growth and sustainable growing dividends can significantly outperform pure growth plays.
Income not only helps provide downside protection but is also an important of the overall return. With greater volatility in the market these funds can form an important of an individual's portfolio if they combine growth with income.
We believe that the Schroders European Alpha Income Fund is a hidden gem however it does carry risks especially around calling the cycle and for some investors this may not appeal. We recently met the team behind the BlackRock European Continental European Income Fund. This fund may act either as an alternative option or a counter balance to Schroders. The performance is strong, it is a concentrated portfolio of currently 42 stocks and the top ten stocks make up 33% of the fund showing strong conviction traits although no one stock dominates.


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Welcome to Pomme Valley! Tag along with two adorable corgis – Sherlock and Watson – and their reluctant owner, Zack, as they solve all manner of crimes in picturesque southwestern Oregon.
Welcome to Pomme Valley! Tag along with two adorable corgis – Sherlock and Watson – and their reluctant owner, Zack, as they solve all manner of crimes in picturesque southwestern Oregon. Included in this box set are the first three novels: Case of the One-Eyed Tiger, Case of the Fleet-Footed Mummy, and Case of the Holiday Hijinks.
When a shocking murder shatters the tranquility of a sleepy Oregon town, all fingers soon start pointing at new resident Zack Anderson. Determined to clear his name, Zack sets out to solve the case with the help of a feisty canine companion with an uncanny ability to sniff out clues. With evidence mounting against him, can Zack identify the killer before he ends up in the doghouse?
When a traveling Egyptian exhibit stops in picturesque Pomme Valley, all hell breaks loose when a valuable artifact is stolen. The prime suspect has already been identified but there's a catch: he's over 3,000 years old! Pomme Valley's newest crime fighting crusaders are on the case with Sherlock, new pack mate Watson, and their reluctant human, Zack. Can they solve the crime and find the loot?
A Grinch is threatening to ruin the Christmas spirit in Pomme Valley, OR, this year. Presents are disappearing from under Christmas trees with no plausible explanation how or why. Our two favorite corgis, Sherlock & Watson, are on the case along with their reluctant human, Zack. Will the unlikely trio of detectives be able to solve the case and restore the presents to their rightful owners?
A rash of missing dogs prompts the official hiring of Zachary Anderson by the Pomme Valley PD as an investigative consultant who will – along with his canine companions – look into the matter. Zack and the corgis race against time to identify the dognapper and return the stolen dogs before the irate townsfolk take matters into their own hands.
A string of baffling incidents have befallen Taylor Adams, baker extraordinaire of Pomme Valley. When good friend Jillian Cooper recommends Zack and the corgis investigate, Taylor's run of bad luck worsens as multiple murders are discovered. All evidence suggests the town baker is to blame. Can Zack and the dogs clear Taylor's good name before someone he cares about becomes the next victim?


"Oddly shaped and pointed." Or, "looks like a dragon's tooth." These are not the usual descriptions of a coffee cherry, but then again, the Parainema cultivar is not your typical coffee. Benjamin Paz's El Dragón, grown on the renowned Santa Bárbara Mountain, is aromatic, floral, and herbaceous, demonstrating in each sip the miracle possible when a cultivar finds its ideal climate.
Benjamin Paz was not always a farmer. He was once known as the dry miller's son. But in this role as matchmaker between local farmers and micro-roasters, Benjamin propelled Santa Bárbara Mountain to specialty-coffee fame—a reputation that today rivals some of the world's most-renowned origins, like Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia, or Boquete, Panama.
It all began with an oddly shaped coffee cherry that farmer Eulogio Martínez was growing on his property. Benjamin helped Eulogio to isolate the outlier cherry and then cupped coffee made from it. Benjamin believed the floral and aromatic coffee to be exceptional and pushed Eulogio to submit it to that year's Honduras Cup of Excellence. They labeled it "Pacamara" because they didn't know what other cultivar it might be.
No other coffee came close to Eulogio's in score, regard, or price per pound. And Benjamin, who had, up until that point, focused only on shepherding other farmers' harvests in the milling process, decided to grow the Parainema cultivar higher than it had ever grown before on his new farm, La Laguneta. After years of focusing on other farmers' quality of coffee, Benjamin was adept at developing unprecedented expressiveness and clarity in the Parainema cultivar. When skillfully roasted—its large, oblong shape is a challenge for consistent caramelization—we have a pristine and beautiful coffee that's as surprising as a mythical creature rising from the mist blanketing the lush slopes on Santa Bárbara Mountain.
All of this is an ironic turn of events for a cultivar that was developed decades ago in Central America to boost farmers' yields, which had been hit hard by coffee root-knot nematode. The name "Parainema" itself is a portmanteau of the region where it originated, Paraiso, and the Spanish word for nematode, nematodo. It seems that El Dragón, like Santa Bárbara Mountain, and Benjamin Paz himself, has many stories to tell and many gifts to offer.


MOTaTech are a trusted garage specialising in MOT services for all classes of vehicle including Motorbikes, Cars, Light Commercials & Motorhomes.
Since moving into their unit in 2014 MOTaTech struggled to achieve the quality light levels needed to carry out intricate work on customers vehicles. After installing additional fluorescent lights at working height, they found the glare and reflection too much.
Whist carrying out the lighting survey our consultant outlined the current lighting levels, the type and number of fittings. Looking to address key lighting issues such as insufficient light, glare, improper contrast and poorly distributed light.
To replace the inefficient 250w Sodium-Vapor Lamps within the area we opted to install 120w Bay Lights with 120 degree reflector shades. The Bay Lights deliver a high output of 125 lumens per watt which was ideal to get the correct lighting levels. Adding the shades meant that the light was focused down to the work area below.
Within this area we replaced six 72w fluorescent panels and two 70w fluorescent T8 Tubes with four Modo 60w Batten lights. Not only halving energy usage within in this area but also addressing the poorly distributed light.


At Easy Baby Travelers we find inspiration from places we visit. Living in Connecticut, NYC is just a train ride away, so of course, we had to make a collection inspired by the sites of the city that never sleeps. Thus, ensued the Brooklyn Collection.
Brooklyn is such a diverse neighborhood, there is literally something to do for everyone. Shop for vintage threads by day and root for the home team at the Barclays Center by night. Traveling with kids? Prospect Park and the stroller-filled sidewalks of Park Slope provide the perfect space.
Brooklyn is one of a kind and that's why our collection is too! See the many ways that you can rock the collection IRL with these Style Boards!
What city inspires you? Do you know someone who would rock this style? Share this blog or tag 'em over on Instagram.


Champagne is one of those things where if you had a glass on a given day, it probably was a pretty good day. It is the drink of celebration and it is the drink of love.
Interestingly, it is perhaps the only wine we choose to drink because of where it is from and the way that it is made. That is to say, the unique manner in which the production process occurs gives us the thing that is most distinctive about Champagne: the bubbles. While most wines are simply fermented grape juice, Champagne goes an extra step to provide for what some call magic.
Champagne is a wine that appeals to the geekiest elements of a wine geek's soul. Arguments can range for hours over which wines are the frothiest or have the creamiest texture. But it is clear that a well-made Champagne will provide not just a palate-pleasing experience, but an undeniable tipsy feeling bequeathed by bubbles that make it the perfect medium for a toast.
While you may not need to geek out there are a few things about Champagne that everyone should know.
First and foremost, for a wine to be called Champagne it must — and this is a legal definition codified in French law, certified by the European Union and a strict part and parcel of various trade agreements — be made in the Champagne region of central France using only grapes that are grown in that region using the méthode champenoise. Period. A wine made in the same way in another place from the same grapes cannot legally use the name Champagne. Just ask the region's lawyers.
For nearly two centuries now, the growers and producers of Champagne have relentlessly and systematically protected their special status as a unique entity on Earth. As far back as 1843, lawsuits were filed by the makers in the Champagne region to guard what they consider to be a name that reflects the care and quality of their unique product.
It all starts with the grapes. The vast majority of Champagne today is made from a trio of approved grapes — chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot meunier — grown in the Champagne AOC, or appellation. These grapes form the triad of the sparkling beauties, though there are four other more obscure grapes that can be legally grown and used in Champagne production, pinot blanc, pinot gris, petit meslier and arbane.
Most Champagne is a cuvee, or blend, of the two red grapes, the pinot noir and the pinot meunier, and the white grape, chardonnay. There are exceptions, however. A Blanc de Blanc Champagne is made from 100 percent chardonnay grapes, while a Blanc de Noir is made from just the two red grapes.
Each of the three main grapes brings something different to the party. The chardonnay is the beauty, the finesse, the fresh taste of the sun, the pinot meunier brings the florals and fruit to the nose, and the structure and backbone are found in the pinot noir. It is the way in which a winemaker uses the varieties that makes a great Champagne.
But perhaps the most unique element of Champagne has to do with the aforementioned méthode champenoise. This time-tested way of making wine involves the use of a "secondary" fermentation, which takes place in the bottle after the still wines have been made and blended.
To begin, the grapes are harvested, pressed and fermented separately to make still wines, just like regular non-sparkling wines. The winemaker then makes decisions on blending those wines together for the Champagne style to be produced.
It is here where the magic begins. The blend of wines is bottled and a mixture of yeast and sugars are introduced into each bottle to start the secondary fermentation. The bottles are sealed with a cap and, over time, the chemical interaction of the yeast, the sugar and the wines produce carbon dioxide, which create the bubbles in the blend. Yes, it is magic, but it is very much based on nature and science.
There are dozens of other sparkling wines in the world, ranging from Italian Prosecco to Spanish Cava to Australian sparkling shiraz to the great sparkling wines made by outposts of French Champagne houses in places like Argentina and California. All can be wonderful in their own right and many use the same "méthode champenoise," which calls for a secondary fermentation of the grapes in the bottle, that is both the tradition and the law in Champagne.
But Champagne only comes from Champagne.
In last week's WineInk I said that Leslie Rudd had purchased "Rutherford Dust." The RUDD Oakville Estate property is, in fact, in the Oakville Appellation.


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Spellcraft screen print
A witch casts a spell beneath a star-studded sky and a waning crescent moon. The art of spellcasting is a defining facet of witchcraft in general and, therefore, is present in all subsequent branches. As a form of magic, the act of casting a spell involves not only an intended action, but the undivided focus of the witch's will to fulfill that intention. There are multiple ways of casting a spell, so long as the will and intention are strong. Most popularly, a spell involves the combining of ingredients or burning of offerings while an incantation is recited. A key defining feature of a well-constructed spell is the final step of "activating" the spell by implementing one of the 4 major elements so that the intention may be put out into the universe to work its magic and find fulfillment. Examples of this kind of activation can be the act of burning (fire), allowing the wind to take your offering (air), burying your offering (earth), or drawing a spell in the sand and allowing the ocean to wash it away (water). The beauty of spellcasting is that it allows room for creativity and any witch may create her own spell using whatever ingredients or tools she possesses, so long as her conviction is clear.
In Spellcraft, the witch is focused on letting go as she gazes directly into the smoke billowing from her cauldron. She has spent the night combining herbs and tree resin as a ceremonial offering to the universal energies. Under the star-studded sky she burns her offering as the symbolic act of letting go. As it burns, the negative feelings she wishes to release are also burned away. With smoke dissipating into the night sky, she places her trust in the universe. The snake slithering beneath her cauldron represents the witch's evolution as she sheds those energies that no longer serve her will. Overall, this drawing is one of catharsis and the reawakening of your inner strength in order to let go of emotional toxicity, emerging more powerful and confident than before.
Spellcraft is original artwork, hand drawn and screenprinted by Adrienne Rozzi.
Printed with black ink on kraft-toned Stonehenge archival paper. Measures approximately 10" x 17" (inches) with a rough deckle along the bottom edge. Signed by the artist.
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Crayon Shin-Chan: Crash! Rakuga Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes
The kingdom that floats above in the sky, that uses free doodles as an energy source, "Rakuga Kingdom." However, now in the face of a lack in energy, they are on the brink of ruin. In order to force the creation of doodles, the kingdom's army begins its attack on Kasukabe on the surface! Meanwhile, as the drawings begin to move, the hero who is bestowed the hidden treasure of the kingdom, the "Miracle Crayon"—is none other than the "super happy-go-lucky 5-year-old," Nohara Shinnosuke!! Together as the "Almost Four Heroes," Shinnosuke and the drawn doodles try to take back Kasukabe! Amongst that, they discover the weakness of the doodles, where they dissolve upon contact with water! To make matters worse, a raincloud that looks to start pouring at any moment hovers above… What awaits their encounter with the doodles and the end of their adventure—will it be smiles, or tears!?
Movie Genre: Animation, Family
Director: Takahiko Kyougoku
Actors: Hiroaki Hirata, Tamao Hayashi, Tesshou Genda, Yumiko Kobayashi
Streaming quality: HD
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A Voice for All
Thu, 19th August 2021
Luke 2: 1-2 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. (NIV)
The idea of a census has been around for a while.
The census that drew Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem was a far cry from our online census experience in 2021. For those of us experiencing lockdown during August, there was a much higher chance of us being in our usual place of residence than usual, and completing the survey online rather than on paper with a black pen or 2B pencil.
Apart from the usual things – changing demand for schools, health care and aged care in each local area, for example – the census this year will give us an insight into the changing nature of our communities and the impact of changing working arrangements that have impacted various sections of the workforce.
Next comes the National Church Life Survey.
Much more than just a census of religious life in Australia, the National Church Life Survey has been holding a mirror up to the church in Australia since 1991.
For local churches, there are insights for leaders about strengths to build on and areas of potential improvement to work on.
How many current attendees are newcomers? (five percent on average in 2016)
What do members think are their gifts for mission and ministry? (Hospitality was top at 40 percent on Average in 2016)
How strong is the sense of shared vision? (33 percent in 2016)
Are you ready to try something new? (72 percent in 2016)
For the church together, as Presbyteries and as a Synod, what can we learn in 2021 that will help guide the implementation of Future Directions?
Which churches are being effective in engaging with Emerging Generations? (According to the 2019 congregational census, 52 churches were leading the way with ministry to children and young adults.)
A heat map of congregations where there is enthusiasm for actively engaging with covenanting with First Peoples, and with advocacy on issues like Climate Action.
Which churches are growing – in discipleship, relationship, number and impact?
How has gathering "on-line" in virtual communities helped build connectedness, especially in rural and remote communities?
Putting the two together
One of the tools the NCLS team has developed based on the community census is a "Community Social Profile" – a report on the community within a certain radius of any address. Opportunities for mission can't help but emerge when a church adds this data to their understanding of their community and is able to compare this to the picture of their membership of the church from the NCLS.
Oh, then there's pandemic.
Our last snapshot of the country and the church was in 2016, while the NSW and ACT Synod also conducted a short-form "census" of our churches late in 2019.
As we move into the last part of 2021, the pandemic is still with us. We're all unsure about how lockdowns and restrictions will impact our meeting together for the rest of the year. While we all hope to pick a week where those who are part of each church community can complete the NCLS while gathering, there is no certainty that will be possible for all of us across the Synod.
No matter how we're gathering for worship and engaged in mission together in October and November, we'll still be able to have a say about our churches and their future. Keep your eye out on the UME website for resources and ideas for running the survey and making the most of your results.
David Cornford
Director – Mission Strategy and Growth, UME
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Rev Neil Ericksson
Fri, 20th Aug 2021 at 7:00 pm
How can a survey on the life of the Church be accurate during the pandemic? Not every cong. is even using Zoom or You Tube for Services. Some are using the resources of other Congs. while others are. using email to send resources to the people. Organisations and community groups are not meeting. Mission Plans are either put on hold or being modified to suit the unusual circumstances.
Surely any statistics gathered will be so scewed as to be unusable?
Wouldn't it be better to delay the CLS to be delayed for 6-12 months?


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Ellen DeGeneres sinks Ryan Reynolds in a dunk tank, raises big bucks for charity
When Ryan Reynolds paid a visit to her show, he may have planned to talk about his latest film and one of his favorite charities. But before it was all over, he was all wet.
By Ree Hines
As TODAY's Matt Lauer knows all too well, Ellen DeGeneres loves to prank a pal — especially when it's for a good cause.
So when actor Ryan Reynolds paid a visit to her show earlier this week, he may have planned to talk about his latest film and one of his favorite charities. But before it was over, he was all wet.
That's because fun-loving Ellen had a soggy plan for her famous friend.
After the "Deadpool" star explained how playing the leading role in the unlikely superhero flick has helped him bond with young fans battling cancer (his character is diagnosed with an incurable form of the disease in the movie), he went on to talk about Make-A-Wish — an organization that does so much for kids in similar circumstances.
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COUPLE THERAPY
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Transformative Couple Therapy (TCT) helps therapists evoke and amplify the power of the felt experience of love in the couples they treat.
This method mobilizes couple members to shift patterns of insecurity and develop a more durable secure base. Forging a pathway from fear to love and from survival to thriving, is an expression of the indwelling biological drive to love and be loved." ( Mars 2011).
To begin the process of transforming relationships, the clinician guides couple members to talk directly to each other from the first moments of the opening session.
For many couple therapists this is a stretch: "What if they start escalating?"
In practicing TCT methods therapists report finding that safe, authentic, and regulated interactions emerge within sessions and between them as well.
This helps the couples break through stuckness and evokes flexible trust and resilience which is new and much needed.
This way of engaging neuroplasticity prepares the therapist to help couples to shift patterns of hot and cold conflict and loneliness, building new pathways of connection and healing.
Features of the TCT method:
Attachment-based, neuroscience-informed.
A somatic-holding model based in emotion, relationship, and transformation.
Biological drives that mobilize healing, repair, love, and connection.
Life-changing first-session interventions: Couples learn that they can spontaneously find their own words to say what they really want with each other and let go of patterns of inflammatory criticism. They move from a hyper-focus on what is wrong, to discovering and expressing what they long for with each other.
When The Going Gets Rough
Forging resilient connections during periods of hot and cold conflict.
Opening somatic awareness through seven channels of experience as an alternative to judging and projecting.
When Triggered: Whose Face Do You See Behind His or Her Face?
Transforming patterns of reactivity and brittleness.
Illuminating, repairing and re-wiring self-protective adaptations through healing unresolved trauma and deprivation.
Stabilizing and Fortifying Change Toward the End of Treatment
When change happens and old patterns reassert themselves, we anticipate these bumps in the road, slow down, and facilitate healing repairs. This is similar to the process of tempering steel: we replace patterns of brittleness with more resilient earned secure attachment.
The final phase of treatment involves couple members mindfully practicing the skillful means they have developed with each other during treatment. The patterns of attunement, disruption and repair become the new normal. The end of treatment involves couples proudly reporting and fine-tuning their accomplishments.
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FROM THE THERAPIST MAGAZINE OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS (CAMFT)
What is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for Couples?
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From the First Minute of the First Session
In AEDPfC, professional training is oriented strongly to the development of particular brain centers . . . more
. . . the therapist identifies key markers of triggers and recognizes opportunities to "slide back in time" . . . more
. . . we follow subtle cues about when to move forward, when to slow down and when to stop . . . more
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AEDPfC - Building Whole
Body Attunement
The Felt Experience of Love is the Healing Force Tapped by AEDPfC
AEDP FOR COUPLES:
From Stuckness and Reactivity to the Felt Experience of Love
By David Mars, MFT, PhD
This paper offers a highly condensed description of the theory and practice of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) for Couples - now called Transformative Couple Therapy.
It describes and demonstrates a somatically focused orientation of tracking the intersubjective field phenomena of both members of the couple. The paper further describes how AEDP for Couples brings explicit awareness to the felt experience of love between the couple members beginning in the first session in order to set a safe container for the transformative work to follow. It describes and shows examples of working with "edges", the paradoxical and initially non-conscious embodied reactions that are both "for" and against the very changes the couple members want and need to make in treatment.
The paper shows the theory and practice of catalyzing in couples: a.) being more attuned, more self-reflective, loving and responsive to the needs of the other partner within sessions and at home, b.) cultivating new capacities of perceiving and receiving the other partner's differing ways of experiencing and expressing not only "affect" per se, but also in a whole range of other "channels of experience" c.) providing a secure "harbor" of safety and support when the other partner is vulnerable and in core affect or a transient dissociation d.) creating sufficient safety in sessions to work through historical antecedents of trauma and deprivation in the company of and with the active support and often physical holding of the marital partner.
AEDP for Couples stands on the firm foundations of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (Fosha, 2000, 2010). In the practice of AEDP on a one-to-one basis, the therapist accompanies the patient somatically on a step-by-step journey through affective experiences that lead to transformational state-shifts of consciousness (Fosha, 2000, 2005; Lipton & Fosha, in press; Prenn, 2010; Russell & Fosha, 2008). The undoing of aloneness through resonant accompaniment enables the patient to side-step historical blockages and move through previously overwhelming affects all the way through to completion.
The healing of traumatic experience within the context of a safe relationship fosters deep repair and quantum change by accessing and occupying alternate neural pathways. From this healing comes new ways of being, feeling and dealing in daily living (Fosha, 2000, 2003, 2009a, 2009b). The patient dyadically works through embodied states of historically "burned in" defensive patterns that lie at the very source of the patient's patterns of dysregulation both internally and in relationship with others. The patient can then access biologically driven adaptive action tendencies (Fosha, 2005) that provide corrective, creative and internally derived solutions that address the deep sources of dissociation and other forms of affective and relational disconnection. By facing previously unbearable states, the patient develops an embodied sense of verifiable trust (Mars, 2010) and new capacities to be deeply connected with self and other.
The AEDP therapist brings into awareness an expansive set of self-evolving resources within the patient herself that become accessible even in life areas never discussed in treatment (Fosha, 2009a, 2009b). Ultimately, the therapist becomes an internalized "true other" (Fosha, 2005) for the patient, who learns to freely access self-righting capacities in daily life.
The Clinical Practice of AEDP for Couples
The process described above for treating individuals with AEDP provides an optimal context through which couple members can cultivate the capacity to become a "true other" to each other (Mars, 2010). The longing to come toward one's life partner and to successfully provide safety and security when the other is vulnerable and shaken is a highly satisfying and biologically driven imperative of attachment (Ainsworth, 1978; Bowlby, 1969). The treatment is an invitation for the relationship, first in session and then at home, to become the vehicle for a forward-moving evolutionary process that generates "earned security" (Roisman, Padrón, Sroufe, & Egeland, 2002) in both partners. They each come to provide a secure base for the other that affirms the deep longing to love and be loved in attuned and flexible ways that allow the life-partner to be different, and yet to be "let in" and to at long-last feel deeply accepted and valued for the differences each partner brings. As life-partners accomplish differentiation and mutual honoring in treatment, a cross-pollination takes place that generates natural, transformational forces by liberating the best, most loving and life affirming potentials of each partner's lineage (Mars, 2009). The key to AEDP for Couples is the biological drive of transformance (Fosha, 2009a, 2010, Yeung, 2010). Transformance, most simply put, is the inverse of resistance. In sessions and in the lived life of couples, transformance is the drive experienced and expressed as the deep longing to love and be loved.
In AEDP for Couples, safety must be established first between the therapist and each of the members of the couple. When this safety then extends between the couple members in the intersubjective field that is cultivated within sessions, the transformative states AEDP fosters become available for the couple to hold, experience and share. Couple members learn to witness (Adler, 2002) each other in an increasingly somatically attuned way. This progressively growing embodied attunement creates the necessary safety to soften defenses and work through issues that predate their coming together in ways that bring justice and peace to even the most mundane of daily interactions. When between couple sessions, for example, the husband washes the dishes with a spirit of loving empathy for his deeply fatigued wife, rather than showing the accustomed resistance or resentful compliance or guilty submission, a deep level change has occurred in the relationship. This experience of being seen, remembered and responded to with the felt experience of love allows for such empathic attunement to become the new atmospheric condition of the home. Moreover, when that attunement is also informed by the husband's reflective awareness of his wife's history of feeling like a "thing made to do things," the home becomes infused with a quality of corrective healing through deep reception of the other. This construction of new meanings (Tronick, 2009) that transform the mundane and menial tasks of lived family life into expressions of love and surprise infuses each member of the couple with new transformance strivings and re-enlivened eros that then potentiates and moves the next session forward.
A Challenge for the Person of the Therapist
In treating a marital dyad in the AEDP for Couples format, the therapist must track moment-to-moment and right-brain-to-right-brain the somatic and affective experiences of two people at one time. Furthermore, couple members almost always present contrasting attachment styles (Wallin, 2007) with accompanying differences in how each member experiences somatically in a relational context (Mars 2009). The therapist must provide a "bridge" (Mars, 1988) between the two couple members in which he recognizes, reflects and appreciates each member's ways of perceiving, receiving and expressing somatically. Through the therapist's affirmation and "translation," each partner's experience becomes increasingly accessible to the other couple member. Over time, the couple members learn how to decode the ways the other is accessing and then broadcasting his or her experience and then learns how to "bridge" to the other (Mars, 1988). This bridging capacity also transfers to the home life between sessions, allowing the couple to increasingly navigate their own way through otherwise "blind allies" of repeated misunderstandings to a new "growing edge" (Mars, 1988; Mindell, 1985) of mutual understanding, flexibility and compassion.
To do this bridging most effectively and naturally, the AEDP for Couples therapist must cultivate whole body "witness consciousness" (Adler, 2002) of perceiving, receiving and expressing in a wide range of "channels of experience" (Mars, 2010) at one time. This cultivation of self assists the therapist to transcend the defensive exclusion and limitations of his or her own internal working model. Then with these expanded capacities to perceive, receive and express somatically, he can provide the necessarily proficient and flexible conduit of "broadband capacity" (Mars, 2010) to track the intersubjective field in sessions in ways that match-up with both of the members of the couple. The therapist in the AEDP for Couples model then gently nudges couple members to go beyond the procedurally learned non-conscious "rules" of each of their internal working models to stretch to meet the other. There are seven "channels of experience" through which the AEDP for Couples therapist accesses and tracks the intersubjective field within sessions. Essentially the therapist tracks "bottom-up" perceiving, receiving and expressing via i. sensation, ii. emotion, iii. energetic awareness, iv. movement, v. auditory, vi. visual, and vii. imagery (Mars, 2009).
In the productive and necessary stretches couple members make in order to reach each other, they take themselves beyond their comfort level during sessions. By choosing to be consciously resonant with ways that are foreign to their previous life experience with its roots in their respective families of origin, couple members are imbued with a range of embodied experiences that are novel and undefended against. This then triggers core affects and other somatic experiences that "surprise the unconscious" (Main & Goldwyn, 1998). When the more avoidant couple member experiences the pleasurable core affect of love/joy in the foreground of awareness, a paradoxical "edge" is often triggered, of mixed emotional and somatic reactivity: one side for and one side against the experience. (Lamagna & Gleiser, 2007; Mindell, 1985) The vulnerability of the possible loss of that suddenly intensely felt love can trigger anxiety that may show up as an "out of no-where" background anger or dissociation. This paradoxical anxiety/anger/dissociation needs to be carefully tracked by the therapist and worked through in the session as it arises, and safely processed to completion, as an explicit and experiential unpacking of experience in the foreground of awareness. Meanwhile the other partner learns to become a compassionate witness to his or her partner's process of exploring that previously non-conscious edge. The body-based sensations, tensions, energetic states, movement patterns that are uncovered in the exploration are often found to be linked to painful "lessons" of the past, when to dare to love was simply too dangerous or too unsupported. The role of the therapy is to work through to completion the historical roots of that anxiety and anger with the marital partner present as a loving and attuned other rather than being the sole target of reflexive enactments. The therapist serves a reliable, kind and capable stabilizing force who helps to structure a deeply reparative experience that directly transfers into the lived life of the couple and in so doing helps to expand the internal working model of both couple members to love and be loved, to deeply understand and to be understood.
The therapist must then do another round of metaprocessing and work through the mixed somatic and behavioral reactions that are elicited in the other partner who served as the witness during these successful, but often triggering "edge crossings" (Mars, 2010). This often results in vitality affects and tremulous affects, which when metaprocessed can set the scene for Core State experiences of relaxed flow in which fresh connections are made into the "unthought known" (Bollas, 1987) with remarkable ease and pleasure. As both couple members continue to expand beyond their internal working models, the therapist again must be sensitive to make room for all the dissenting voices of doubt, protest, rebound anxiety and all the somatic reactions that are stirred up that are "against" those changes being made, even if these changes have been invited for years. Paradoxically, this is especially true when the new loving experiences and expressions feel "sensible," right and good at the time of the session. If the edges are detected by the therapist and processed to completion at the moment they appear as non-congruent somatic expressions as simple as shaking the head no, while smiling and enthusiastically saying yes, the new loving behaviors have a much greater chance to become resilient and stable at home. Unexplored edges are the sleeping non-conscious triggers for saboteur enactments driven by the return of the couple's original interlocking internal working models that brought them into treatment. Fewer ruptures at home translate into verifiable trust being built that it is safe to love and safe to receive love non-defensively.
In summary, for each marital partner to cross-over to meet and satisfy the long-denied attachment level longings of the other to feel and be loved and loving, requires "rule violations" of both couple member's internal working model. These experimental "rule violations," while they can potentially generate enactments of betrayal of tender and tenuous trust, are also the very source of the "expansion of the loving behavioral and emotional territory" (Mars, 2010) that the treatment seeks to instill. It is the longed-for-love of the partner that is typically the sole motivation sufficient to take such stretches beyond the familiar (and in fact familial) survival strategies. The treatment is about acts of love. In truth though, most couples are driven into treatment by acute attachment anxiety. It is the movement from fear to love, from survival to thriving which is the expression of transformance: the motivating drive to evolve that gives AEDP for Couples its biological thrust and power as a treatment modality. As these new ways of perceiving, receiving and expressing love have been repeatedly, safely and explicitly unpacked and metaprocessed within the safety of the sessions, the stretches of new behavior become progressively more resilient and take up a stable residence in the couple's daily life. It is a major theme of AEDP for Couples to create new shared territory upon which the couple incrementally and dyadically constructs a "new culture" and a "hybridized internal working model" (Mars, 2009) of relating to each other and to themselves.
In AEDP for Couples, the dyad is supported, catalyzed and scaffolded by the therapist so they can manifest a sufficient affective attunement with each other, so they can progress from defense to core affect. With softened defenses, the couple celebrates successes accomplished between sessions, makes repairs for regressions and moves through the blocks that showed up. As each wave of core affect is worked through to completion in sessions, adaptive action tendencies (Fosha, 2009a) come to the fore and organismically provide the emerging "next steps" in the couples treatment. For example, the follow-on effects of completing a wave of the core affect of sadness is seeking comfort that meets that felt-need-of-the-moment with that life partner instead of with the therapist. When anger is accessed and expressed clearly and productively with the marital partner, a much-needed setting of boundaries and an asserting in highly specific and adaptive ways takes place and is, with the help of the therapist, taken in by the partner. When the core affect of fear rises up in one partner, the other partner is helped to be present and come forward to offer the well-timed, attuned protection that at last matches the deeply felt core longing for what had "always" been missing, both in the marriage and in the developmental life that preceded it. As each session progresses and the natural expressions of each couple member's affect are received as having meaning (Tronick, 2009) and value to be heard and responded to by the life partner and the therapist, confidence and resiliency builds within the couple. During these waves of processing core affective experience, the couple can physically hold each other hand-in-hand, body-to-body in ways the therapist cannot. The rightness of fit of the dyad is both confirmed and constructed through these deeply corrective and pleasurable experiences of close gazing, holding and expressing care and valuing.
AEDP for Couples is not a "manualized" therapy. The work is to evoke the authentic and spontaneous loving and attuned co-creations of the marital dyad. While all core affective experiences are important in the treatment, by far the most vital to the process in AEDP for Couples is the core affect of love/joy. The embodied experience of love is different from the idea of love or the memory of love, and certainly from the promise to love (Mars, 2010). The process of softening defenses and opening to the embodied experience of love for the other begins in the very first session in AEDP for Couples. This experience of love and the biologically derived inner direction that emanates from it, provides the guiding light and internal compass of the transformative process of each session and increasingly in the couples lived-life between sessions. Couples who are in the later stage of treatment describe middle-of-the-night interactions that had historically produced re-traumatizing arguments turning instead into surprising and deeply healing breakthrough experiences of finally getting through to each other and completing a process that had repeated itself as an unsuccessful turn-key enactment dozens of times before.
If the couple has children, the experience of the secure base they form in sessions comes to extend naturally to how their children feel them together. It has been demonstrated in recent research by the Circle of Security group that when a mother's sense of security and attuned support improves, her baby's status moves quite rapidly toward a greater security of attachment. (Marvin, Cooper, Hoffman & Powell, 2002). Also, improved teamwork in parenting results in increased stabilization and affect- regulation in the couple's offspring. This then generates deep satisfaction and a primal confirmation of the couple's rightness of fit with each other and of being on the right track and in the right relationship.
To read more of this paper, and if you are a therapist or intern,
view this pdf file
AEDP-for-Couples-From-Stuckness-and-Reactivity-David-Mars-PhD-2011.pdf


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What is the popular baby name on 26 Aug 1999?
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Try another birth date of someone you know or try the birthday of these celebrities: February 5, 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor and singer; July 27, 1922 – Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer; October 1, 1972 – Esa Holopainen, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amorphis).


Thank You Letter or Thank You Email?
View Poll Results: What is the best thing to send after a residency interview?
Voters: 23. You have to register to vote in this poll.
Am not asking what to write am just asking which is better, Thank you letter or Thank you email?
Thank you email is the standard thing but a Thank You Postcard is more physical and may impress the recipient more than just an email.
I've added a poll to your thread and let's see what others vote for.


Some companies may decide that the best market entry strategy for China is to set up local production. Such a decision invokes a number of problems.
Is cooperating with a local partner the best option, or a wholly owned venture? If the latter is preferred, is it possible to buy an existing Chinese company or set up an entirely new plant?
If cooperation with a local partner is selected as the best way to set up shop in China, the next problem is selecting a partner. Eurasia Consult can use the same information base and methods for partner selection as those used for the selection of local agents.
Eurasia Consult can assist the customer in performing the feasibility study necessary for the approval of the project by the Chinese authorities and perhaps for obtaining bank loans or attracting other financiers. Aspects involved here are: availability of natural resources, availability of competent local employees, presence of a local customer base, sympathetic local government, etc.


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# Memory tuning guide

In addition to the [main memory setup guide]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup" >}}), this section explains how to set up memory
depending on the use case and which options are important for each case.

## Configure memory for standalone deployment

It is recommended to configure [total Flink memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup" >}}#configure-total-memory)
([`taskmanager.memory.flink.size`]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-flink-size) or [`jobmanager.memory.flink.size`]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#jobmanager-memory-flink-size))
or its components for [standalone deployment]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/standalone/overview" >}}) where you want to declare how much memory
is given to Flink itself. Additionally, you can adjust *JVM metaspace* if it causes [problems]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_trouble" >}}#outofmemoryerror-metaspace).

The *total Process memory* is not relevant because *JVM overhead* is not controlled by Flink or the deployment environment,
only physical resources of the executing machine matter in this case.

## Configure memory for containers

It is recommended to configure [total process memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup" >}}#configure-total-memory)
([`taskmanager.memory.process.size`]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-process-size) or [`jobmanager.memory.process.size`]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#jobmanager-memory-process-size))
for the containerized deployments ([Kubernetes]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/standalone/kubernetes" >}}), [Yarn]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/yarn" >}}) or [Mesos]({{< ref "docs/deployment/resource-providers/mesos" >}})).
It declares how much memory in total should be assigned to the Flink *JVM process* and corresponds to the size of the requested container.

Note If you configure the *total Flink memory* Flink will implicitly add JVM memory components
to derive the *total process memory* and request a container with the memory of that derived size.

  Warning: If Flink or user code allocates unmanaged off-heap (native) memory beyond the container size
  the job can fail because the deployment environment can kill the offending containers.

See also description of [container memory exceeded]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_trouble" >}}#container-memory-exceeded) failure.

## Configure memory for state backends

This is only relevant for TaskManagers.

When deploying a Flink streaming application, the type of [state backend]({{< ref "docs/ops/state/state_backends" >}}) used
will dictate the optimal memory configurations of your cluster.

### Heap state backend

When running a stateless job or using a heap state backend ([MemoryStateBackend]({{< ref "docs/ops/state/state_backends" >}}#the-memorystatebackend)
or [FsStateBackend]({{< ref "docs/ops/state/state_backends" >}}#the-fsstatebackend)), set [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory) to zero.
This will ensure that the maximum amount of heap memory is allocated for user code on the JVM.

### RocksDB state backend

The [RocksDBStateBackend]({{< ref "docs/ops/state/state_backends" >}}#the-rocksdbstatebackend) uses native memory. By default,
RocksDB is set up to limit native memory allocation to the size of the [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory).
Therefore, it is important to reserve enough *managed memory* for your state. If you disable the default RocksDB memory control,
TaskManagers can be killed in containerized deployments if RocksDB allocates memory above the limit of the requested container size
(the [total process memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup" >}}#configure-total-memory)).
See also [how to tune RocksDB memory]({{< ref "docs/ops/state/large_state_tuning" >}}#tuning-rocksdb-memory)
and [state.backend.rocksdb.memory.managed]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#state-backend-rocksdb-memory-managed).

## Configure memory for batch jobs

This is only relevant for TaskManagers.

Flink's batch operators leverage [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory) to run more efficiently.
In doing so, some operations can be performed directly on raw data without having to be deserialized into Java objects.
This means that [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory) configurations have practical effects
on the performance of your applications. Flink will attempt to allocate and use as much [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory)
as configured for batch jobs but not go beyond its limits. This prevents `OutOfMemoryError`'s because Flink knows precisely
how much memory it has to leverage. If the [managed memory]({{< ref "docs/deployment/memory/mem_setup_tm" >}}#managed-memory) is not sufficient,
Flink will gracefully spill to disk.

## Configure memory for sort-merge blocking shuffle

The number of required network buffers per sort-merge blocking result partition is controlled by
[taskmanager.network.sort-shuffle.min-buffers]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-network-sort-shuffle-min-buffers)
and the default value is 64 which is quite small. Though it can work for arbitrary parallelism, the
performance may not be the best. For large scale jobs, it is suggested to increase this config value
to improve compression ratio and reduce small network packets which is good for performance. To increase
this value, you may also need to increase the size of total network memory by adjusting the config
values of [taskmanager.memory.network.fraction]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-network-fraction),
[taskmanager.memory.network.min]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-network-min) and [taskmanager.
memory.network.max]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-network-max) to avoid `insufficient number of
network buffers` error.

Except for network memory, the sort-merge blocking shuffle implementation also uses some unmanaged
direct memory for shuffle data writing and reading. So to use sort-merge blocking shuffle, you may
need to reserve some direct memory for it by increasing the config value of [taskmanager.memory.task
.off-heap.size]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config" >}}#taskmanager-memory-task-off-heap-size). If direct memory OOM error
occurs after you enable the sort-merge blocking shuffle, you can just give more direct memory until
the OOM error disappears.

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The Texas Department of State Health Services, Certified Food Manager (CFM) Program has been accrediting food manager training courses since 1988. Today, food manager training and certification has become a standard of the food industry as well as a regulatory standard throughout the state of Texas.
The CFM Program accredits and licenses training programs for candidates new to the food industry who may need training. The Program also licenses Test Sites that provide the food manager's examination to those who have sufficient background in the food industry and wish to take the exam with minimal or no training. Examinations offered through training programs and test sites are accredited through American National Standards Institute – Conference for Food Protection (ANSI-CFP). Certified Food Manager Certificates issued through these providers receive national reciprocity. The CFM Program also licenses online exam providers. Certified Food Manager Certificates issued through these providers receive state-wide reciprocity.
Senate Bill (SB) 1158 of the 85th legislature (2017) amends Health and Safety Code Chapter 437 to establish that a county with a population of at least four (4) million may require a certified or trained food manager to be on duty during the operating hours of a food establishment. This Bill takes effect September 1, 2017.
The Texas Department of State Health Services, Certified Food Manager Program remains dedicated to the health and safety of the citizens of the state, educating food service employees in the principles of food safety to produce safe food products for Texas consumers.
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La Cartuja de Champmol, formalmente Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, era un monasterio cartujo en las cercanías de Dijon, la capital del Ducado de Borgoña en el siglo XV (actualmente la ciudad se encuentra en Francia).

El arquitecto responsable fue el francés Drouet de Dammartin.

El monasterio fue fundado en 1383 por el duque Felipe II de Borgoña para proporcionar un lugar de enterramiento a los duques de Borgoña de la dinastía Valois, y estuvo en uso hasta que fue disuelto en 1791, durante la Revolución Francesa. Denominado "el proyecto más grande en un reino célebre por la extravagancia", fue enriquecido de manera pródiga con obras de arte,  muchas de las cuales son esenciales para la comprensión del arte de ese periodo.Destaca la muestra "Chartreuse de Champmol", Dijon, 1960, con un catálogo que contenía ensayos de estudiosos de la categoría de Millard Meiss y Colin Eisler.

Referencias

Arquitectura de Francia del siglo XIV
Champmol
Champmol

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The Frontline Project, Inc., in partnership with Tallahassee Community College Workforce Development will offer an off-site GED study class in the Griffin Heights Neighborhood/Springfield Community. The class is designed to help those that desire to complete their high school education and gain access to future positive possibilities.
As an added incentive, once the student has successfully completed the course and received their GED Certificate, through the Frontline Project's sponsors, they will receive a brand new laptop as they enter the professional workforce and career.


1 Read the following text and match headings a-h with paragraphs 1-7. There is one heading you do not need.
You'd better like photocopying. And faxing. And searching through half-filed, old copies of the Boxwood News, or whatever, hunting for an article from 1983 about football. If you're considering a career in journalism, it's worth spending your holidays making coffee, answering telephones and taking notes for a local or national publication (unpaid, of course).
The idea occurred to me halfway through university, where everyone else was already muttering about becoming bankers. I sent off a handful of letters and managed to get a temporary job on a fashion magazine. While my friends were earning extra money working in bars, I was sleeping on a friend's floor in London, trying to look like a professional journalist.
My first experience of professional journalism did not go smoothly. During my first week at the magazine, I spent most of my time covered in photocopying ink, mastering (slowly) the art of transferring telephone calls. I tried not to be scared by the pencil-thin fashion journalists, but would take the stairs so I could avoid standing next to them in the lift.
Back at university, I edited the student newspaper before I began to have doubts about whether this was really the career for me. I wasn't entirely sure I had the sort of toughness that journalists are supposed to possess. I didn't think I'd ever grasp shorthand. In short, I decided that it was a nasty business and I'd rather be a hairdresser.
Shortly after I'd telephoned a hairdressing school, I won an award which gave me some work experience on a national Sunday paper. It was a fantastic four weeks. Although it was yet more filing and photocopying, for the first time I felt that I was actually part of the publication; I sat in on meetings -I even interviewed a couple of fashion designers.
In September, I moved to my present job, and it's here I've been happiest. It's like any job - six months down the line I'm still finding out everyone's name, and how to use the computers, and where everything is. I even still feel nervous when I speak to my section editor!
It's different from student journalism. Deadlines are tougher, the need for accuracy greater. There are certainly jobs that pay better, offer longer holidays and more sociable hours. People write and complain and it's still the most mortifying thing in the world to know you've got your facts wrong and let everyone down. But it's worth it. At least for me, it is.
2 Complete the sentences using one of the following verbs in the correct form.
1 Yesterday, thieves ___________ Sarah's handbag while she was out shopping.
2 Nobody believed that John got to the top of the mountain, but he had photos______________it.
3 The film star said she hated the way people used ______________at her when she went shopping.
4 Chris's hobby is fixing and______________old motorcycles.
5 jean ran all the way to the station and managed ______________onto the train just before it left.
6 If you want to do your best in these exams, you should ______________too many late nights.
7 The earthquake______________the city unexpectedly and many people were killed.
3 Choose the best answer, a, b or c, for each gap.
1 When we arrived at the training course, we were to different groups.
2 The speaker ______________ that children should read rather than watch TV.
3 My teacher ______________ me to enter the singing competition, didn't think I was nearly good enough.
4 Nathan was______________to go on an expedition through the jungle.
5 Suzy was chosen to______________ her school at the national youth festival.
6 The principle of free medical care for everyone was ____________in Britain in 1948.
7 The writer's house_____________a fascinating collection of old photographs.
8 The second part of the lesson was ____________ to practising the language in pairs.
9 After spending a whole weekend working on his motorcycle, Sam felt he had______ a great deal.
10 The crowds_____hours before the pop concert began so they could get the best view of the stage.
11 There are __________ differences between the two political parties.
6 Complete the sentences using the phrases below.
4 Complete the sentences with a relative pronoun.
1 The friend ___________ party I'm going to is eighteen tomorrow.
2 This detective story, ____________ is set in Florence, is really exciting.
3 The person____________answered the phone wasn't the person I was looking for.
4 The house___________Dominic is living has a big garden.
5 Sarah told me all about the play,___________ she said was fantastic.
5 There is a mistake in each of these sentences. Circle the mistake and write the correct sentence underneath.
1 This is the coat what Suzy bought last week.
2 That is the person where I want to teach me the violin.
3 Is this the cinema who you were trying to find?
4 I don't know which shoes these are - do they belong to you?
5 Laura agreed with everything who you suggested.
1 ___________Charlie, everyone else in his family loves chocolate.
2 We had sun, sea and wonderful food on holiday; _____________ we had a great time.
3 The world is at real risk from global warming, _________the experts.
4 I know you don't like Mark; __________I think you should accept his invitation to dinner.
5 I have to say that it was _____________the worst film I've ever seen.
The need for the Internet in schools.
What I like and dislike on television and why.
2 That is the person (who / whom) I want to teach me the violin.
3 Is this the cinema (which / that) you were trying to find?
4 I don't know whose shoes these are - do they belong to you?


As you step into this beautiful home, be welcomed by attractive, yet functional tile floors, tray ceilings, and plenty of natural light. Wood floors add sophistication to the formal dining room. The great room features a lovely brick surround fireplace. Enjoy the spacious island kitchen with impeccable cabinetry, stainless steel, granite counters, a walk-in pantry, a butler's pantry with wine storage, and an oversized breakfast room. Details continue into the private master retreat with tray ceilings, and lots of natural light. The spa-like master bathroom is complete with double vanities, an oversized walk-in shower, and a large walk-in closet. Enjoy two more spacious bedrooms with convenient full bath access. This amazing home has boasts an ideal location and is just minutes away from Lake Conroe, the Woodlands Mall, shopping, and dining.


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How Long Could It Take To Get My Green Card?
The process for seeking a Green Card is not quick. Depending on the type of application involved, it can take several months–indeed, several years–for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to process and approve a Green Card. In some cases, the delay may be long enough to justify judicial intervention in the process.
Judges Will Not Expedite "Reasonable" Delays in Processing Applications
It is important to understand, however, that what you might consider an unreasonably long delay in approving your Green Card is not necessarily what the law–or a judge–will consider unreasonable. So you may still need to wait multiple years before getting a final determination of your immigration status.
A recent decision from a federal judge in New York, Aydemir v. Garland, illustrates the difficulties in assessing "how long is too long" to wait for a Green Card. The petitioner in this case is a Turkish citizen who was granted asylum to enter the United States in 2019. The petitioner subsequently filed a Form I-485, i.e., an application for a Green Card.
After waiting 28 months–more than two years–for a decision on his I-485 application with no response, the petitioner filed a lawsuit in federal court. Specifically, he filed a petition for a writ of mandamus. Basically, the petitioner asked the court to order the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjudicate his petition now because he had been forced to suffer an unreasonable delay.
The judge denied the petitioner's request. The petitioner based his claim on the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), a federal statute that allows a court to decide whether or not a federal agency has "unduly delayed" making a decision. Some judges have held that federal immigration law prevents Green Card applicants from relying on the APA. The judge in this case, however, said that the courts were only barred from reviewing a decision to deny a Green Card. The court could, in theory, order the government to make a decision.
But in this case, the judge said the 28-month delay was "not unreasonable as a matter of law." According to USCIS, its average processing time for Form I-485 applicants was 40.5 months. And as a general rule, the courts found Green Card delays of "less than four years is reasonable on its face," while a delay exceeding six years was likely unreasonable. So the petitioner's application in this case was "still several years away from approaching this zone of unreasonableness, and he has cited no cases demanding a shorter timeline."
Contact a Florida Immigration Lawyer Today
As the judge in the Aydemir case noted, USCIS normally follows a "first in, first out" policy when processing Green Card applications. This can be frustrating if you are at the back of the line, so to speak, and you are looking to expedite a final decision.
If you have questions or concerns about the immigration process and need legal advice or representation from a qualified Palm Beach County Green Card attorney, contact the Devore Law Group today to schedule an initial consultation with a member of our immigration team.
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