It's one thing to move abroad — it's a whole different experience to move abroad alone. This time last year, I quit my job and bought a one-way ticket to Peru with no clue where I was going to settle or how I was going to make money once I got there. It may sound crazy, but I had moved abroad twice before, so I felt like I knew what I was getting into. The difference this time around was that I had no real plan upon arrival. Even though half of my friends and family thought I was totally crazy, I learned some invaluable life lessons from my spontaneity that I wouldn't take back for anything.
That said, the trials that come with moving to a different country alone aren't for everyone. It's a test that will bring out both the worst and the best in you, and you won't be able to anticipate any of it until it happens. But you shouldn't let that scare you, because it will give you an opportunity to grow in ways you didn't even know that you needed to.
If moving abroad alone is something you're seriously considering, here's what you should know before you decide to take that leap.
If you're a young woman who's planning to move abroad alone, brace yourself for a never-ending deluge of concerns. Prepare for these fears to be amplified if you're moving to a country that is perceived as less safe, or if you're going alone instead of with a group or a significant other. Obviously, most of these concerns are well meaning; (I love you, Mom!) but if you take them to heart, they'll only work to make you feel more paranoid than you already do.
Yes, something bad could happen. But something bad could happen when you walk out your front door tomorrow, too. If I had listened to all of the advice I heard about staying safe as a woman, I'd probably be hiding out in a bomb shelter right now. It's important to take steps that will make you feel safe, but don't let the fear hold you back. Instead, focus on all the possibilities for experience and growth with this opportunity.
After moving abroad three times, I've realized that planning ahead only gets you so far. So don't drive yourself crazy trying to prepare. Before moving to Laval, France, I spent weeks looking at apartments online, trying to gauge proximity to bus stops, and vetting potential roommates. All of that work ended being pretty pointless, though.
You won't really understand the feel of your new town, or which apartment fits your needs best, until you see it for yourself. You may also miss out on the chance to live with some great people because you chose your living arrangements too quickly. When I moved to Peru and France, living arrangements fell into my lap within the first month of arriving.
You've probably heard tales of people taking advantage of tourists abroad. While those stories are very real, they shouldn't discourage you from moving, either. When I moved to France alone, couch-surfing became an immediate safety net for me. Two weeks into my move, multiple families hosted me and I made an entirely new group of friends my age. One family even drove me around to look at places to live, helped me open a bank account, and lent me a bike to use throughout the year. They were so generous it was almost overwhelming, but I certainly welcomed it.
It's healthy and normal to be skeptical of strangers when moving abroad, but don't let that skepticism stress you out too much. Whether or not the news reports it, people really will go out of their way to be kind and helpful. And if a situation feels sketchy to you, proceed with caution and trust your gut.
You don't need a load of cash to move away; you just need to get creative. My path abroad was not a linear one — especially when I decided to quit my job to move to Peru. As a preschool teacher who was only working 30 hours a week, money wasn't exactly rolling in. To offset that, I spent all of my free time scrimping and saving before I left. I made contacts in my classroom and started babysitting on the side. Which meant spending a lot of nights, weekends, and even school breaks watching other people's kids.
A lot of the time it was exhausting, especially the two week stretches when I only came home to sleep. Despite the occasional burnout, though, I didn't regret any of it. Not only did I build meaningful relationships with the families who I worked for, but I finally saved enough money to launch myself to another country. I also had the peace of mind that I could rely on my nest egg while I got settled.
If you really want to move abroad, you will find a way to do it. Trust me, the exhaustion and extra hard work will be 100 percent worth it.
It's usually easier to make friends who share your language and customs, but don't let that be your excuse for staying in your comfort zone. During a teaching apprenticeship in France, I noticed a lot of the women who participated in the same program quickly made friends with each other. Although those friendships immediately benefited them, most were anxious to leave by the end of their stay — partially because they hadn't made any real connections with local residents.
Did I miss out on those friendships? Maybe, but I knew I'd have plenty of time to speak English and hang out with Americans when I was back in my own country. Making friends in a new country is harder for some people than it is for others, especially when foreign languages or cultural differences are involved. But the only way you're going to get better at a foreign language or learn a culture's customs is to immerse yourself in it. If you need a friend to wax nostalgic about home, go for it. Just make sure to reach out for those intercultural friendships, too. You'll probably learn more about yourself than you would have otherwise — and maybe you'll even have friends to visit when you return.
Moving abroad may seem like a way to escape your problems, but it usually only amplifies them. It can be an intense experience, but also a meaningful one if you take it as an opportunity to face your demons head-on. Each time I moved abroad, holidays alone and dreary weather suddenly made getting out of bed a momentous challenge for me.
Although those periods were difficult, it taught me new ways to cope with my depression. Ultimately, those hard times made me a stronger and more resilient person. I discovered that, sometimes, trying to escape your issues forces you to face them. If you find yourself in a similar situation, take it as a blessing in disguise.
Here's the secret nobody tells you about moving abroad: you'll likely be more doubtful of yourself than ever before, but you'll also discover a new-found confidence you probably never considered possible.
Despite how unpleasant my bouts of depression, difficulty adjusting to a new culture, and occasional feelings of homesickness were, all those experiences gave me more confidence than I've ever had in my life. When it comes down to it, I know now that I'm capable of being resourceful in unusual situations. Now, when I have doubts about my capabilities, I'm always able to fall back on these thoughts: I moved abroad alone. I found a place to live. I found work. If I can do all of that on my own, what can possibly stand in my way?


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When Jim Kissinger, December 2022 Volunteer of the Month, joined the American Red Cross, he came with a personal understanding of the important work that blood donors do for their communities. Several years earlier, Jim's sister had been diagnosed with leukemia and Jim became a regular blood donor to support her and other patients. When Jim joined the Red Cross as a Blood Donor Ambassador he had already made more than 100 blood donations. His commitment to making regular blood donations continues today.
A lifelong educator in the Riverside School District, Jim retired as a middle school principal 10 years ago. When he joined the Red Cross, Jim's experience in education and blood donation came together perfectly for the Blood Donor Ambassador role. "I work with the high schools in Orange County, with the schools' Red Cross Clubs," Jim said. "Most of the donors at these blood drives are high school students." As a Blood Donor Ambassador, Jim welcomes and checks in the students, makes sure they, or their parents - depending on the student's age - have read and understand the pre-donation materials, and ensures every donor has a positive experience. Jim believes that a positive experience is the critical element. "I want these students to become lifelong donors."
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Home SPORTS Firmino thrusts Musona back into the spotlight
Firmino thrusts Musona back into the spotlight
Roberto Firmono's stunning strike in the seven-goal feast in a classic English Premiership showdown at Anfield on Saturday evening has once again brought the debate related to the club career of Warriors captain Knowledge Musona back into the spotlight.
The Brazilian international forward scored a beauty in Liverpool's 4-3 win over runaway English Premiership leaders Manchester City as the five-time European champions paraded their attacking power to end the lengthy unbeaten run by Pep Guardiola's troops.
This was Firmino's 10th goal in 22 appearances, including three from the bench for Liverpool this season which is seeing a marked improvement in his game for the English giants where he has established himself as a key member of their awesome attack which features African Footballer of the Year Mohamed Salah and Senegalese star Sadio Mane.
He ran onto a pass from the outstanding Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, whose energy and pace cast a spell on a midfield he dominated with aplomb to even overshadow Manchester City's creative hub, Kevin De Bruyne and used his strength to bully his way past defender John Stones.
Then, from an angle, he had the presence of both mind and accuracy to chip the ball over the advancing 'keeper and steer it onto a romantic kiss of glory with the inside of the post before it rolled home amid organismic explosions by the Anfield faithful who are now getting used to seeing their team treat them to such attacking football.
"Oxlade-Chamberlain pass, Firmino away from Stones, scores with sublime skill, that was beautifully done, just a gorgeous day for Roberto Firmino and Liverpool have their lead back on the hour," screamed the SkySports television commentator in a fitting soundtrack to the move.
Mane and Salah also scored superb goals on the day, but in this country, it's Firmino's rise that continues to provoke debate about what might have been for Musona had a combination of both fate and the benefit of wise counsel turned his career in a different direction.
The debate between Firmino's sensation to become a star at one of Europe's biggest football clubs and Musona's stagnation, which has seen him stuck at a modest Belgian club, was triggered by reports carried in this newspaper last week.
A number of voices gave their sides of stories as to why the two, who arrived at German Bundesliga Club TSG Hoffenheim at around the same time six years ago, exploding with raw talent and great expectations, have now seen their careers turn out so differently.
Musona moved to KV Oostende from Hoffenheim for about 450 000 pounds, after a loan spell at another German club Augsburg and his former South African side Kaizer Chiefs and has scored five goals in 17 league matches this season, one in the Europa Cup and two in two Belgian Cup games.
Before Firmino arrived at Liverpool, Musona was given a golden chance to break into the English Premiership when veteran manager Harry Redknapp, who brought Benjani Mwaruwari to Portsmouth in a club record-breaking 4,1 million deal from France, tried to lure the Warriors skipper to England.
"On behalf of Queens Park Rangers Football Club I kindly request the temporary release of Knowledge Musona to join us in a trial assessment at our club for a duration of 10 day's," Redknapp, who was the QPR manager, wrote on July 4, 2013.
"The player is expected to arrive in England at the possible earliest date."
The London club were then an English Premiership side back then.
However, Musona didn't travel to England with the man who had brokered that deal, Kenny Mapeza, saying the Warriors skipper felt belittled by being asked to have a 10-day assessment at a time he felt he was good enough to be signed without undergoing a trial period.
A great opportunity was lost.
Redknapp's interest in Zimbabwean players had started at the turn of the millennium when he brought Norman Mapeza to West Ham only for the move to be destroyed by British authorities who declined to issue him with a work permit.
Rio Ferdinand, who was then at West Ham before he later became a huge star at Manchester United, trained with Mapeza and gave a glowing endorsement to the Zimbabwean star.
But this did not deter Redknapp who then signed Mapeza at Portsmouth on a two-year deal in July 2001 from Austrian club SV Reid.
"Norman is a player we have been chasing," Redknapp, who was the club's director of football, said back then.
"I rate Norman very highly and I think he will do a great job here. I had him at West Ham for pre-season training at the start of last year, but he never played for us because we could not get a work permit.
"I don't expect to have problems with that this time because he is the captain of Zimbabwe and they have gone up the world rankings, which will make things easier for us.
"The fact that I brought him to West Ham indicates how highly I rate him. He is also a leader as well and that is not a bad thing."
However, Mapeza could not secure a work permit once again for him to play in the English Premiership.
At 27, Musona is a year older than Firmino who even had disciplinary issues at Hoffenheim where he was once dropped from the team for showing up late for training.
The Brazilian didn't explode in his first season at the German club where he scored only four goals before following that up with seven goals in 36 appearances in his second season.
However, in June 2015, he completed a 29 million move to Liverpool at the same time Musona was moving to KV Oostende for about 450 000.
Firmino's development has seen him become an all-round player who averages 0,35 goals per game and his goals at Liverpool have come from seven headers, 17 with his right foot, seven with his left and seven from the penalty spot.
He has had 212 shots, with 91 on target, his shooting accuracy is around 43 percent, four times he has hit the woodwork, 19 chances he has missed have been considered big ones, there have been 19 assists and 3 192 passes during his Liverpool career.
He averages 36,27 passes per game, he has sent in 120 crosses, created 27 big chances for his Liverpool teammates during his time at Anfield, made 158 tackles, has seen 61 shots being blocked, made 55 interceptions and 33 clearances.
Firmino is certainly flying right now, enjoying life at the very top of the game and with the career of another Zimbabwean star, Khama Billiat, currently the subject of intense speculation, the Brazilian's rising stock and Musona's retreat into a modest European league from one of its Big Five Leagues, will continue to provide a number of talking points for the domestic football constituency desperate for one of their own to make it among the big boys.
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class FriendsViewController: UIViewController {

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A: I found two ways to get rid of this error.
First, explicitly annotate the property with its type. I find this very strange because Swift is supposed to just infer this from the initialization.
lazy var embeddedViewController: CustomViewController = CustomViewController()

The second is just to remove the lazy keyword.
var embeddedViewController = CustomViewController()

So I guess this is an error currently plaguing lazy properties in Swift 2.0?

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As a teenager, I started high school at 7:30 a.m. (yep, Rochester Adams still hasn't changed its start time since then.) I would often get to sleep around 11 p.m. or later – not because I was playing video games or texting, which didn't exist in 1991, but because my circadian cue for sleep onset was later than it had been when I was a child. I would have to wake up around 6:30 a.m. to be to school on time, which often meant that I was sleeping 6 or fewer hours each night. I don't think I remember anything from my first two periods throughout high school. I would sleepwalk through my morning and "wake up" around midday. I would often nap in the afternoon. And still my daily sleep wouldn't add up to nine or more hours.
The science says no. But why might adults be so rigid in their thinking about the social obligation of the school day? Many commenters on the CBC article fall into a slippery slope fallacy, assuming that today's "lazy" teenagers will be tomorrow's "lazy" workers and demand that work times shift to later in the day as well. The science doesn't point to the need to change our work days – though there have been some movements towards flextime and workplace napping – but many of the adult commenters don't even appear to buy the premise that sleep needs change throughout the life course.
One of the things that comes through in the comments to the CBC story is that many adults feel as if they did just fine in high school, and that today's youth should be just fine as well. In one commenter's language, changing school start times amounts to "molly coddling" teenagers and playing into their entitlement. High school, it seems, is hazing for entry into the "real" world of adulthood, emblematized by work. While this is surely part of what school is intended to do – it models the demands of the workday with deadlines and expectations of outcomes – it is primarily intended to produce competent citizens. If changing the start time to slightly later in the day leads to more engaged citizens and more capable workers, shouldn't we change our school days?
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ABBOTT, DARRELL LANCE [DIMEBAG DARRELL] (1966–2004). Guitarist and producer Darrell Lance Abbott was born in Arlington, Texas, on August 20, 1966. He was the son of Jerry and Carolyn Abbott. Darrell Abbott, better known as "Dimebag" Darrell to his fans, is perhaps best-known for forming the rock band Pantera with his brother Vincent Abbott in the early 1980s. Pantera became one of the world's most popular metal bands and helped to keep the rock genre alive throughout the 1990s.
Born and raised in the Dallas area, Darrell Abbott was influenced by music at a young age. Son of country songwriter and record producer Jerry Abbott, Darrell and his brother Vincent, better known as Vinnie Paul, were encouraged early on to play music. Despite being surrounded by country music as a child, Darrell was drawn to such rock music influences as Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Ace Frehley of Kiss, Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen, and Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne's post-Black Sabbath guitarist). In his early teens, he frequently won local and statewide guitar talent competitions.
Darrell Abbott (on guitar) and his brother Vinnie Paul (on drums) formed the original version of Pantera in 1981 and founded the record label Metal Magic in order to release their music. At first, the band was more pop-oriented and somewhat reminiscent of the so-called Sunset-Strip style of metal rock. Abbott was originally known as "Diamond" Darrell, because of the flashy style of rock music he played.
When vocalist Philip Anselmo joined Pantera in 1987, the band redefined its sound and began playing a harder-edged style that some music critics dubbed "power metal." It was at this time that Abbott changed his nickname from "Diamond" to "Dimebag." He reportedly auditioned for the band Megadeth in the late 1980s but was turned down. Pantera signed with a subsidiary of Atlantic Records in 1990 and released the album Cowboys from Hell. Two more albums soon followed, Vulgar Display of Power in 1992 and Far Beyond Driven in 1994. Far Beyond Driven debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard charts and marked the band's peak of commercial success. Pantera released two more albums and received four Grammy nominations over the course of its career. Abbott lived in Arlington and had a recording studio in his home where several Pantera albums were recorded. However, after persistent feuding between Darrell Abbott and Philip Anselmo, Pantera broke up in 2003.
During that same year that Pantera split up, Darrell and his brother Vinnie Paul formed the new band Damageplan. With Abbott on guitar and Paul on drums, the brothers recruited vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Kakaha. Abbot produced the group's debut album, New Found Power, which was released in February 2004. Damageplan traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to play a concert on December 8, 2004, at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub. However, during the first song of the evening, audience member Nathan M. Gale fatally shot Abbott, along with concertgoer Nathan Bray, Alrosa Villa employee Erin Halk, and Damageplan security guard Jeff Thompson. Apparently, Nathan Gale was upset about Pantera's breakup and blamed Abbott for the band's demise.
Darrell Abbott was noted for his short, tight guitar solos, which many critics argued helped preserve the traditional heavy metal sound, even after the genre had lost popularity in the 1990s. He performed on recordings of other groups, including Anthrax and Nickelback. Darrell Abbott also played a cut on Spacewalk: A Salute to Ace Frehley (1996), a tribute album to his early guitar influence, and he and Vinnie Paul collaborated with country musician David Allan Coe. After Abbott's death, Guitar Player magazine acknowledged him as one of "The 10 Most Important Guitarists Ever." With his roaring approach and heavy metal guitar riffs, Abbott inspired a generation of young metal guitar players.
Abbott was survived by his father, Jerry Abbott, and his brother, Vinnie Paul. Darrell Abbott's funeral service took place at the Arlington Convention Center, and he was buried in the Moore Memorial Garden Cemetery in Arlington, along with one of Eddie Van Halen's guitars.
Bob Gulla, Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2009). Brian Hiatt, "Dimebag Darrell Abbott," Rolling Stone, December 30, 2004. New York Times, December 10, 2004. "Obituary: 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott," FOX News.com (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141009,00.html), accessed September 20, 2010.
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Each Friday after Mass we pray this Perpetual Novena to St. Monica for those who have left the faith or who never were given faith or don't believe that they return to or join the Catholic Church. We have written the names of those specific people we are praying for and have put them in the box placed by the altar. We would love to have you join us on Friday mornings but if you can't, please pray with us from home.
Intercede for all mothers in our day so that they may learn to draw their children to God.
Dear St. Monica, troubled wife and mother, many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime. Yet you never despaired or lost faith. With confidence, persistence, and profound faith, you prayed daily for the conversion of your beloved husband, Patricius, and your beloved son, Augustine.
Grant us that same fortitude, patience, and trust in the Lord. Intercede for us, dear St. Monica, that God may favorably hear our pleas.
And grant us the grace to accept His will in all things, and to faithfully persevere in prayer for the conversion of loved ones.


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Current Affairs, Whats New
Daily Current Affairs | 13th June 2020
Soil scientist Rattan Lal wins World Food Prize 2020
Indian-American soil scientist – Dr. Rattan Lal – has been declared the winner of the World Food Prize 2020.
He played a major role in developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change.
Three separate United Nations Climate Change Conferences have adopted his strategy of restoring soil health as a means to sequestering carbon.
In 2007, he was among those recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize Certificate for his contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, when the IPCC was named co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Objective:The World Food Prize is the foremost international honor recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
Field Covered:It is an annual award that recognizes contributions in any field involved in the world food supply including plant, animal and soil science; food science and technology; nutrition, rural development, etc.
Eligibility:It is open for any individual without regard to race, religion, nationality or political beliefs.
Cash Prize:In addition to the cash award of $2,50,000, the laureate receives a sculpture designed by the noted artist and designer, Saul Bass.
Presentation of the Award:
The Prize is presented each October on or around UN World Food Day (16thOctober).
It is presented by the World Food Prize Foundationwhich has over 80 companies, individuals, etc. as donors.
The World Food Prize Foundation is located in Des Moines, USA.
Norman E. Borlaug,winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in global agriculture, conceived the Prize. He is also known as the Father of the Green Revolution.
The World Food Prize was created in 1986 with sponsorship by General Foods Corporation.
It is also known as the"Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture".
M.S. Swaminathan,the father of India's green revolution, was the first recipient of this award in 1987.
Union Agriculture Minister launches Sahakar Mitra: Scheme on Internship Programme
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare has launched a Scheme on Internship Programme (SIP) i.e. Sahakar Mitra.
It is an initiative by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC)for young professionals. It is expected to be beneficial for both i.e. cooperatives as well as for the young professionals.
Earlier, the government launched 'The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP) Portal'to provide internship opportunities to thousands of fresh graduates and engineers of the country under the 'Smart City' projects.
The Sahakar Mitra scheme will help cooperative institutionsaccess new and innovative ideas of young professionals while the interns will gain experience of working in the field to be self-reliant.
It will provide the young professionalsan opportunity of practical exposure and learning from the working of NCDC and cooperatives as a paid intern.
It would also provide an opportunity to professionals from academic institutions to develop leadership and entrepreneurial roles through cooperatives as Farmers Producers Organizations (FPO).
In line with the AtmaNirbhar Bharat (Self Reliant India), it focuses on the importance ofVocal for Local.
Professional graduatesin disciplines such as Agriculture and allied areas, IT, etc.
Professionals who are pursuing or have completed their MBA degreesin Agribusiness, Cooperation, Finance, International Trade, Forestry, Rural Development, Project Management, etc.
Financial Support:
NCDC has designated funds for thepaid internship program under which each intern will get financial support over a 4 months internship period.
National Cooperative Development Corporation
Formation:The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1963 as a statutory Corporation under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare.
Headquarters: NCDC functions through its Head Office at New Delhi and multiple Regional Offices.
The objectives of NCDC are planning and promoting programmes for production, processing, marketing, storage, export and import of agricultural produce, foodstuffs, industrial goods, livestock and certain other notified commodities and services on cooperative principles.
The NCDC has the unique distinction of being the sole statutory organisation functioning as an apex financial and developmental institution exclusively devoted to the cooperative sector.
It is a major financial institution for cooperatives, and has recently started Mission Sahakar 22,which aims to double farmers' income by 2022.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise. E.g. FPOs as cooperatives.
An FPO,formed by a group of farm producers, is a registered body with producers as shareholders in the organisation.
It deals with business activities related to the farm produceand it works for the benefit of the member producers.
Provisions of Indian Constitution related to Cooperatives
The Constitution (97thAmendment) Act, 2011 added a new Part IXB right after Part IXA (Municipals) regarding the cooperatives working in India.
The word "cooperatives" was added after "unions and associations" in 19(1)(c) under Part III of the Constitution.This enables all the citizens to form cooperatives by giving it the status of fundamental right of citizens.
A newArticle 43B was added in the Directive Principles of State Policy (Part IV) regarding the "promotion of cooperative societies".
NCDC should develop some techniques to evaluate the performance of cooperatives and encourage them to perform better.
The scheme will provide a boost to government-academia-industry-civil society linkages.
Further, India needs to learn from technical and vocational training/education models in China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Singapore,and adopt a comprehensive model that can bridge the skill gaps and ensure employability of youths.
Regulating the Ninth Schedule
Recently, a Union Minister emphasised the need to include all reservation-related laws in the Ninth Schedule of Constitution so that they are shielded from judicial review.
The minister argued that reservation is not confined just to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) and is available to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and poor sections of the upper castes as well and have been attached to Fundamental Rights.
SC/ST Reservation:
Both the Centre and the states are permitted to make any special provision for the advancement of SCs and STs.
Thequota in government jobs and educational institutions for SCs and STs is 15% and 7.5% respectively (total 22.5%).
Other Backward Class (OBC) Reservation:
Both the Centre and the states are empowered to make provision for the advancement of OBCs regarding their admission to educational institutions and government jobs.
Thequota limit for OBCs is 27%.
However, various state governments have different quota limits for OBCs in their state like Tamil Nadu has 50% reservation for OBCs.
In the Indra Sawhney & Others vs Union of India, 1992judgement, the Supreme Court fixed the upper limit for the combined reservation quota i.e. should not exceed 50% of seats.
Economically Weaker Section (EWS) Reservation:
The 103rdConstitution Amendment Act, 2019 empowers both Centre and the states to provide 10% reservation to the EWS category of society in government jobs and educational institutions.
This demand comes after the Supreme Court'srecent observation that the Right to Reservation is not a Fundamental Right.
Earlier, SC ruled thatreservation in the matter of promotions in public posts was not a fundamental right and that a state cannot be compelled to offer quota if it chooses not to.
Apart from that, there have been repeated challenges to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and its amendments.
9th Schedule
The Schedule contains a list of central and state laws which cannot be challenged in courts and was added by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951.
The first Amendment added 13 laws to the Schedule. Subsequent amendments in various years have taken the number of protected laws to 284 currently.
It was created by the new Article 31B, which along with Article 31A was brought in by the government to protect laws related to agrarian reform and for abolishing the Zamindari system.
While Article 31A extends protection to 'classes' of laws, Article 31B shields specific laws or enactments.
While most of the laws protected under the Schedule concern agriculture/land issues, the list includes other subjects.
Article 31B also has a retrospective operation which means that if laws are inserted in the Ninth Schedule after they are declared unconstitutional, they are considered to have been in the Schedule since their commencement, and thus valid.
Although Article 31B excludes judicial review,the apex court has said in the past that even laws under the Ninth Schedule would be open to scrutiny if they violated Fundamental Rights or the basic structure of the Constitution.
Although reservation is necessary, it should also be open to judicial scrutiny in order to ensure any abrupt or irrational policy initiative by the Executive or the Legislature.
Any loophole or shortcomings in reservation policy must be addressed by involving various stakeholders. The need of the hour is not to go to extremes of either scrapping or shielding reservation policy, rather a rational framework on this contentious policy must be developed.
Recently, the 40th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting was held.
GST Collections:
In the first two months of the current financial year, 2020-21, the cumulative GST revenues of states and the Centrehas been only 45% of the monthly target.
In 2020-21, the combined monthly GST revenue target is estimated at Rs. 1.21 lakh crore taking into account the budget estimate and states' protected revenue.
Market Borrowing:
As revenue has fallen for both the Centre and states, the GST Council has decided to hold a single-point agenda meeting in July, 2020 which will discuss market borrowing by the Council itselfas one of the ways to raise money and compensate states for GST revenue losses.
TheGST Act, 2017 extends a guarantee to states that any loss in revenues in the first five years (2017-2022) of GST implementation will be compensated through a cess that accrues to the Compensation Fund.
The shortfall is calculated assuming a 14% annual growth in GST collections by states over the base year of 2015-16.
In the 8thGST Council meeting it was discussed that in case the amount in the GST Compensation Fund fell short of the compensation payable, the Council shall decide the mode of raising additional resources including borrowing from the market.
The borrowing could be repaid by collection of cess in the sixth year or further subsequent years.
Issues Involved:
There is a question about thelegality of the GST Council to borrow; for instance, can it be accorded sovereign status like Centre and states.
The burden and the impact of market borrowing on the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM Act), 2003is not clear.
Tax Rationalisation:
The Council discussed correction of inverted duty structurefor footwear, fertilisers and textiles.
Inverted duty structure is a situation where the rate of tax on inputs used is higher than the rate of tax on the finished good.
Take an imaginary situation of the tyre industry, the tax rate on natural rubber (input) purchased is 10% whereas the tax rate on rubber tyre is 5%. Here since the tax rate on input is higher than that on the finished good, there is an inverted tax structure.
However, the decision was deferred because it would have resulted in increase in the prices of fertiliser, footwear and ready-made garments, which would have affected the process of economic revival.
Compliance-related Relief:
The GST Council also provided compliance-related relief to small taxpayers with turnover up to Rs. 5 crore.
It reduced the interest by half on delayed filing of GST returnsfor February, March and April, 2020 to 9%, provided the returns are filed by September 2020.
For May-July, 2020 the deadline for filing GST returns has been extended till 30 September, 2020 without any penalty.
It is a constitutional body under Article 279A. It makes recommendations to the Union and State Government on issues related to Goods and Service Tax and was introduced by the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016.
The GST Council is chaired by the Union Finance Ministerand other members are the Union State Minister of Revenue or Finance and Ministers in-charge of Finance or Taxation of all the States.
It is considered as a federal bodywhere both the centre and the states get due representation.
The Economic Survey 2017-18also hailed the GST Council for its cooperative federalism technology which brings together the Center and States and can be applied to many other policy reforms.
Every decision of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall be taken at a meeting by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the weighted votes of the members present and voting,in accordance with the following principles, namely:
The vote of the Central Government shall have a weightage of one third of the total votes cast, and
The votes of all the State Governments taken together shall have a weightage of two-thirds of the total votes cast in that meeting.
There is immediate need to clarify whether the GST Council can be accorded sovereign status or not, so that it can borrow from the market to meet the states' compensation requirement.
If provided the authority to borrow from the market then on whom the burden of borrowing shall lie, need to be clarified.
Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare highlighted the role of Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)
Recently the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare highlighted the role of Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) in increasing incomes of small and marginal farmers through aggregation and development of agribusiness.
Established:SFAC was established in 1994 under Societies Registration Act, 1860 as an autonomous body promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare.
Objectives:Promoting agribusiness by encouraging institutional and private sector investments and linkages to ensure the empowerment of all farmers in the country.
Organising small and marginal farmers as Farmer Interest Groups, Farmer Producer Organisations and Farmer Producer Company for endowing them with bargaining power and economies of scale.
Few Important Schemes Implemented by SFAC:Equity Grant & Credit Guarantee Fund (EGCGF) Scheme , Venture Capital Assistance (VCA) Scheme, Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) Scheme, National Agriculture Market (NAM) Scheme, etc.
Recent Initiatives/Developments:SFAC launched the Kisan Rath app with the help of officials of the Ministry of Agriculture which lessened the problem of transport of farm produce during lockdown.
It signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to bring in better synergy in the agricultural activities.
Equity Grant & Credit Guarantee Fund (EGCGF) Scheme
The Equity Grant Fund has been set up with the primary objectives of :
Enhancingviability and sustainability, credit worthiness of Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs),
Enhancing the shareholding of members to increase their ownership and participation in their FPCs.
The Credit Guarantee Fund Schemeprovides a Credit Guarantee Cover to the Eligible Lending Institution (ELI) to enable them to provide collateral free credit to FPCs.
Venture Capital Assistance
Venture Capital Assistance is financial support in the form of an interest free loanprovided by SFAC to meet the shortfall in the capital requirement for implementation of the project.
Note: Line of Credit is a 'soft loan' provided on concessional interest rates to developing countries, which has to be repaid by the borrowing governments. The projects under LOCs are spread over different sectors like agriculture, infrastructure, telecom, railway, transmission/power, renewable energy, etc.
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Published: Tuesday 9th August 2022
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Long-standing brewery titans such as The Kernel, Five Points and Partizan return for a 10th year, alongside new kids on the beer block including Beak Brewery and Queer Brewing, and international beers from the likes of Finback (USA) and Stone & Wood (Australia).
Not a fan of beer? If the festival doesn't convert you, there's a bunch of other options too, including craft gin and vodka and natural wine, alongside others.
With all that beer comes a fair amount of food too. Line your stomach with snacks from the likes of Soho legends 10 Greek Street and Fallow, alongside New Orleans-style boil up specialists Decatur and piles of meat at From the Ashes BBQ.
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Q: Json.NET Ignore null values in dictionary When serializing a dictionary with JSON.NET, it seems like the NullValueHandling setting is ignored.
var dict = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    ["A"] = "Some text",
    ["B"] = null
};

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dict, Formatting.Indented,
    new JsonSerializerSettings
    {
        NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore
    });

Console.WriteLine(json);

Output:
{
  "A": "Some text",
  "B": null
}

I expected that only the KVP with key "A" is present in the json output and KVP "B" is omitted.
How can I tell Json.NET to only serialize the entries that do not contain null values?

A: I would just filter out the null values from the original dictionary with LINQ and serialize the filtered dictionary:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace JsonSerialize {
    public static class Program {
        private static Dictionary<string, string> dict = new Dictionary<string, string> {
            ["A"] = "Some text",
            ["B"] = null
        };

        public static void Main(string[] args) {
            var filtered = dict
                .Where(p => p.Value != null)
                .ToDictionary(p => p.Key, p => p.Value);

            var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(filtered, Formatting.Indented);

            Console.WriteLine (json);
        }
    }
}

Which gives:
{
  "A": "Some text"
}

A: The NullValueHandling setting is only applicable to class properties and not dictionaries. There doesn't appear to be a built-in way in JSON.NET to ignore null values in a dictionary.
If you want JSON.NET to handle this case for you, then you can create a custom JSON converter and override the WriteJson method to handle the null values.
public class CustomJsonConverter : JsonConverter
{
    public override bool CanRead => false;

    public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType)
    {
        return objectType == typeof(Dictionary<string, string>);
    }

    public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
        var dictionary = (Dictionary<string, string>)value;

        writer.WriteStartObject();

        foreach (var pair in dictionary)
        {
            if (pair.Value != null)
            {
                writer.WritePropertyName(pair.Key);

                serializer.Serialize(writer, pair.Value);
            }
        }

        writer.WriteEndObject();
    }
}

Which then you can use like this:
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dict, Formatting.Indented, new CustomJsonConverter());

A: The main idea of serialization is that after deserialization you should have the same object back. Most likely that is illogical to leave out keys with null values from a dictionary because keys per se represent some data. But that is ok to not save null fields because after deserialization you would still have the same object because these fields would be initialized to null by default.
And, this would work fine for class fields if they are nulls. Look at this example:
public class Movie
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public string Classification { get; set; }
    public string Studio { get; set; }
    public DateTime? ReleaseDate { get; set; }
    public List<string> ReleaseCountries { get; set; }
}

Movie movie = new Movie();
movie.Name = "Bad Boys III";
movie.Description = "It's no Bad Boys";

string ignored = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(movie,
    Formatting.Indented,
    new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore });

// {
//   "Name": "Bad Boys III",
//   "Description": "It's no Bad Boys"
// }

In your case values for certain keys are nulls, but that's not the same as in the documentation provided.
This might help you, but you should be aware of how ToDictionary affects performance:
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dict.Where(p => p.Value != null)
    .ToDictionary(p => p.Key, p => p.Value), Formatting.Indented);


When to use iru/aru vs desu?
I'm learning Japanese and my current lesson is arimasu and imasu. It is used for stating the existance of an object/person but when should I use it instead of desu?
So when should I use desu or iru and aru? Please help me.
です in the basic sense is am/is/are in English.
いる・ある is there is/there are in English, with いる corresponding to animate objects (people and animals), ある is for inanimate objects. I can't remember which lesson it is on here but it does a good job of explaining the difference.
Also of note is that you can actually have いる・ある + です in the same sentence, because です can simply be a marker you stick at the end of sentence to make it more polite, e.g. 三つあるです (There's three of something). That means exactly the same thing as 三つあります, it's just a variation of it. There's a lot of ways of saying the exact same thing in Japanese - I can think of about five different ways to ask someone how old they are, for example.
いる・ある are also used as auxilliary verbs but you'll get to that in your studies later on, most likely.
Also there appears to be a mistake in your book, it should be 社長は、どこに居ますか。You've got to have the に in there, it's part of いる・ある use. Aki or someone will probably correct me but どこですか should be used for buildings, places etc. whilst Xさんがどこに居ますか should be used for people.
As 番長-san explained in detail, desu (です) is equivalent to "be-verb" like is/am/are in English.
On the other hand, iru/imasu (いる/います) are "there is/are (animated objects like humans and animals)" and aru/arimasu (ある/あります) are "there is/are (in-animated objects like things)"
However, when you don't talk about locations, you can't use desu to express exsistence of something or someone.
Concerning, いる/ある + です, I've never used "あるです" as the politer form while it sounds cute. I just say "あります". Or if you mean あるのです, it works.
Ah right, I thought it was just a polite copula you could append to the end of any sentence to make it more polite. Of course the ます系 is better.
This topic came up whilst I was in Japan and the basic idea is that aru is for inanimate objects and iru is for living things so I suppose its more respectful. Imagine if someone asked where you were and the response was "its in the kitchen," you'd be a little annoyed. Aru is a bit like that.
Desu just means that a sentence you've used that doesn't have any other verb is true. My dad is a teacher, my cat is brown etc. But if someone asked where your cat was, you'd use iru.
We then had a debate amongst a group of maybe 8 Japanese people and some foreigners as to whether trees should be iru or aru (its aru, so think animate instead of living).


Running tires tubeless might be one of the greatest revelations we've come across during our years of riding. The ability to run lower pressure and a reduction in flats is just too good to ignore. As systems continue to refine, Orange Seal brings products to the table that improve the experience and through trial and error, are engineered to reduce any frustration that may ensue with a tubeless setup. Its Versa Valve Tubeless Valve Stem is one product that has proven its weight in gold.
The biggest advantage of the Versa Valve is its large base that accepts different rubber grommets that help this valve adapt to an airtight fit on virtually any rim. No more leaking sealant or air at the valve hole. These 42mm valves are built of aluminum for light weight and feature removable valve cores for sealant injection and extender use. The kit comes with 2 valves, 2 different grommets, extra valve cores, and a valve removal tool.
Very disappointed. First off, the length is very misleading. The 60mm one measures something like 75-80mm from bottom to the tip, unlike most of the tube valves, measured from bottom to the tip. Second, it does not work well with Silca presta chulk. Third, The nut is very easily scratched. From my 5 sets of tubeless wheels, this is the least practical one.
I too am disappointed with these but for different reasons.
First the nut is very small (short & small O.D.) such that gripping it is very difficult. This also causes it to squeeze the o-ring so tightly that loosening/tightening the nut is nearly impossible. The wrench flats can help but I don't carry wrench that size when I'm out riding. I had to use a spare lock nut w/ o-ring from another stem which didn't have any of these problems.
Also the flat base of the stem doesn't grip the grommet so when loosening/tightening the nut the stem turns with the nut. Between that and the undersized locknut I had to unseat the tire to hold the stem's base in order to loosen/tighten it. This problem makes these stems too much of hassle to bother with despite how great they look on paper. Am. Classic & E*Thirteen make valves with alloy bases, but those have a lip on them that grips the grommet just fine.
Orange Seal should delete one of the two spare cores (how many spares does one need?) and instead put the money into a bigger locknut and a base that will grip the grommet.


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Q: Unable to retrieve entity values from LUIS in Microsoft Bot framework (node.js) Deployed a LUIS template on Azure's new Bot Service. Tested the code locally and it works perfectly. However, on loading the same code into the bot service, I am unable to retrieve entities produced by LUIS.
Here is the section of code:
bot.dialog('/', intents);

intents.matches('getWeather',[
function(session, args, next)
{
    //session.send("Inside weather intent")
    var intent = args.intent;
    var location = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(intent.entities, 'place');

I also tried the following:
var location = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(args.entities, 'place');

And finally:
var location = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(args.intent.entities, 'place');

Can't seem to retrieve the entities. I tried the following code locally with i/o on the console and it works fine:
bot.dialog('/', dialog);
dialog.matches('getWeather',[
function(session, args, next)
{
    console.log("Inside weather intent")
    var location = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(args.entities, 'place');

The LUIS model has been trained and I cross-checked the API variables. The intent is correctly recognized and triggered as well. The output is either "null" or "[object Object]"

A: To retrieve entities, just use
<entity-name>.entity

where entity-name is your var location. I hope this solves the problem.

A: I have encountered the same problem before, have you tried the following code to see if your entities exist?
if(args.entities[0]) {
        session.send(args.entities[0]["entity"])
        session.send(args.entities[0]["type"])
}

If they do exist, how are your Environmental Variables and LuisModelUrl set up? If you are using the EVs and "api.projectoxford.com" as your LuisAPIHostName, try updating the host name to "<your bot's location>.api.cognitive.microsoft.com".


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Q: Display a div only if another div has content (React) I have 3 div :

*

*a container (typing-container)

*a div that displays an animation of someone writing* (typing-indicator)

*a div that shows the usernames of people writing (typing-names)

Here's a part of the code of the component :

I want to display the typing-indicator div only if typing-names div has content
Something like this, but I don't know how to put it in React (with Hooks),
if (document.getElementByid("typing-names").innerHTML !== "") {
  document.getElementsByClassName("typing-indicator")[0].style.display = "none";
} else {
  document.getElementsByClassName("typing-indicator")[0].style.display = "block";
}

But how can I do this in React ? And please no jQuery !
*Link of animation if you want to see it : https://www.google.com/search?q=message+typing+css&rlz=1C1CHBD_frFR755FR755&sxsrf=ACYBGNTAK7JVbTZYCL53oXza1zM4c9isXw:1574531740368&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsvsno84DmAhWrx4UKHT1LCPQQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1920&bih=937#imgrc=Bd1G1Ka8LZ3JKM:


Macy's Inc. (M - Get Report) shares spiked on Wednesday, May 16, after the retailer issued a strong earnings report and upgraded 2018 guidance.
Shares were up 9% to $32.65 in mid-morning trading.
The stock had risen 6.8% to $32 in premarket trading after first-quarter sales rose 3.6% to $5.54 billion from a year earlier and exceeded Wall Street estimates. Same-store sales jumped 3.9% on an owned basis vs. expectations of up 0.7%.
"The sales uplifts are particularly impressive, with a 3.9% rise in comparables (4.2% on an owned plus licensed basis) suggesting that Macy's recovery is gaining momentum" wrote GlobalRetail Data managing partner Neil Saunders in a press release. "That said, there are a few caveats that need to be addressed in order to provide a balanced view."
Those caveats, according to Saunders, include a shift in the Friends and Family promotion, which last year fell in the second quarter; the very weak prior year comparative when sales dropped by 5.2% on a comparable basis and by 7.5% on a total basis; and that the strong consumer economy buoyed some of Macy's good news.
The company also reported first-quarter adjusted earnings of 42 cents a share, beating analysts' consensus of 37 cents, and 26 cents from the same period last year.
Macy's CFO Karen Hoguet said during the earnings call on Wednesday that the strong quarter was due to many factors, including more robust consumer spending and higher sales from foreign tourists. "International tourist sales were up close to 10% in the quarter, which is only the second time since 2014 when we experienced an increase," added Hoguet.
Macy's said Wednesday it raised guidance for 2018, saying it expects earnings of $3.95 a share, up from $3.75, and total sales in a range of down 1% to up 0.5%.
"The winning formula for Macy's is a healthy brick-and-mortar business, robust e-commerce and a great mobile experience," Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette said in a press release.


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Peter Tesar Architectural Design - Standards... What Standards?
With the Government forever trying to merge products and materials to meet with European Standards, will things ever really be equal within Europe, do they really meet with our high expectations?
The old BSI kitemark will soon be a thing of the past if it isn 't already, new EU standards seem to be the universal achievement currently holding manufacturers to ransom. The only problem is… how rigorous are these standards and can one standard really meet all european countries requirements.
I only mention this because for work, this subject is very emotive and on a social level my cycling and motorcycling passion come under the same scrutiny for protective apparel. I like sticking with names I can trust such as Arai, Aplinestar, Sidi etc… and the standards they set still aim to appease the British Standards product testing but the actual standard now in place and accepted by governing bodies are far short of these, the outcome is that the market is flooded with cheap, albeit very affordable, products from all over the world.
The same questions can be asked within the construction industry, how good are the EN Standards that have been set up and monitored by the CEN ( European Committee for Standardization ).
You only have to look around you when traveling through most European countries, the buildings and part finished which gives a chance to take on board the methods used for construction in those areas, at best they look like a bisected clay flake, rendered both side and painted.
A majority of scaffolding seems archaic (no doubt supplied by the local wonky eyed Joe) all the electrical wiring used as convenient hanging loops for months whilst the building is left exposed to the elements!
In fairness there are a couple of other countries within the EU that currently maintain and implement similar standards and no doubt they too are asking the same questions so this is not the defamation of individuals but more a rant at European directives in general.
Thankfully from a vocational perspective, we have a system in place to monitor the design, product, workmanship and construction of buildings within Great Britain.
We as a country have and always will have high expectations with extremely high standards and it will be a very long time before Europe in general becomes a level playing field!


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Wellness is a wide concept. We often associate it with physical fitness, but that's not true. Wellness is a holistic approach that deals with overall well-being and all aspects of life, emotional, physical, social and spiritual. So, here's a list of the 10 best health experts that can guide you well in your holistic Wellness journey.
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4. Ridhima Batra
5. Urvashi
6. Ajay Tokas
7. Ravi Rawat
8. Shiwam Raj
9. Logan
10. Ritik Makker
She is a Senior nutritionist practising in her clinic, "Health Abode". She specialises in dealing with issues like Diabetes, PCOS, Hypothyroid, Hypertension, and Fatty Liver. She has an experience of more than 12 years.
Isha Khosla is the Founder of Whole Foods India and The weight monitor. She has been practising nutritional sciences for over the last 36 years. Along with working as a clinical nutritionist, she is also a columnist, author and entrepreneur.
Nupur Jain is a renowned Delhi-based dietician with a Master's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. She is also fascinated with yogic sciences and enjoys doing yoga regularly. Her specialised areas of interest are Gut Health, Diabetes, PCOS, Healthy Weightloss, Meal Planning and Child Nutrition.
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She is a well-known nutritionist and has been featured in many popular magazines and newspapers like Cosmopolitan, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Femina etc. Ridhima Batra is working as a professional nutritionist and holds experience for 6+ years.
She is a yoga enthusiast and passionately believes in sharing her knowledge and encouraging people to practice yoga. Urvashi provides tutorials, tips and tricks on yoga to people through her Instagram page. Her Instagram feed contains detailed nutrition-related information and suggestions to get you in shape.
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It was always said that the TV series MASH lasted longer than the war it depicted. Not so, because in actuality the Korean War never ended. Ever since the ceasefire in 1953 there has existed a deep hostility and suspicion between the North, South and the United States. So in case you (like me) thought that we said goodbye to the "cold war" with the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appears we were both deluded. offically relations between America and the old USSR defrosted in 1991, drawing to a close a chapter in history that had lasted 46 years.
There had been many times during that period when the war stood on the precipice of nucleor annihilation, notably the cuban missile crisis in 1962. We are only now just beginning to understand how close we came to doomsday during this stand off between President Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev, the then Soviet Leader. From my perspective though I was never more acutley aware of the threat of nuclear war than during the 80's. This was a period when I became deeply politicised. There was so much going on locally, nationally and internationally that it would have been almost odd if I hadn't turned into an angry young man.
But it was war or the threat of it that occupied my mind most back then. In the early part of the 80's we had Reagan in the Whitehouse, Thatcher in Downing Street and a Breshnev (soon to be followed by Andropov and Chernenko – Soviet leaders were dropping like flies back then) in the kremlyn. Now this lot could hardly be described as a bunch of peace loving hippies. Thatcher was only too willing to flex her muscles over the Falklands, Reagan had his misadventure in Grenada and the Soviets were still deeply entangled in Afghanistan. Our only comfort was M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) This was a doctrine that "guarenteed" peace between East and West on the basis that any side launching a strike on the other faced certain death, as each side was armed to the teeth. So began an arms race that ultimately brough the soviet union to its knees. They called it M.A.D. and it was.
So it was against this backdrop of fear that my political views were formed, and I hold many of the same views today. I hadn't realised just how pervasive this fear was though until last night. As is often the case on a Saturday night with kids in bed, I open a bottle of wine and after a few glugs on goes the music channels. There is usually some show playing retro music, and true to form last night there was and "ulimate 80's show" or something like that. As I sat back and watched through blurry eyes I was struck by how many songs were influenced by that fear of nuclear holocaust.
the 80's was the decade of the pop video, and one after the other they trooped out, each one a reflection of the times they were made. Let's list them Ultravox "Dancing with tears in my eyes". The video is a man, Midge Ure racing home to be with his missus before the bomb drops. Then there was Blondie's "Atomic", OMD "Enola Gay", Nena "99 Red Balloons", and of course Frankie's "Two Tribes". In fact I was sure there were more so I did a quick google search and found this:
http://www.inthe80s.com/nuclearwar/
Yes there is actually a web page devoted to listing them all. It wasn't just music though. It was also in school with "protect and survive" lesson in Social Studies. We got leaflets through the door to the same effect. We had programmes on telly such as "Threads", "The Day After" and "Z for Zacharia". In the movies was "War Games", the story of a boy who nearly triggers a nuclear war with his home computer.
We have been told all that is behind us now. The cold war is over, the threat of nuclear war between superpowers has faded away to be replaced with the more unpredictable and insidious threat of terrorism. well apparently not so, like a bad penny the threat has returned again to haunt us. In recent years we've had the fear of firstly Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction (this turned out to be rubbish) then Iran and now we know North Korea has joined the club. For me I was never happy with anyone possessing weapons that could destroy entire countries, and that included the US and Britain. The arguement that they are unsafe in the hands of tyrants but perfectly safe in the hands of democratically elected governments never washed with me. Remind me who are the only nation to drop not one but two Atomic Bombs?
The increasing tension and rhetoric over North korea is all depressingly familiar to those of us of a certain vintage. We can only hope that neither of these two tribes is "MAD" enough to take this situation beyond mere sabre rattling. As the great philosopher, Holly Johnson said "When two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score." You know what I've only just realised how deep that was.


After legislatures criminalized a major portion of juvenile delinquency in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of incarcerated youth began serving their sentences in adult correctional facilities. To understand the ramifications of this practice, prior research studies compared the correctional experiences of youth in juvenile and adult facilities. Yet this research often minimized the pains of imprisonment for youth in juvenile facilities, based on the contrast to adult facilities and the toxic conditions of confinement within them. In this Article, we contribute to this literature by analyzing data from interviews with 188 young men incarcerated in juvenile and adult facilities across two states. Surprisingly, our results show that although inmates in adult facilities give higher ratings of services and social climates than youth in juvenile facilities (including criminal activity and victimization), they fare much worse on other measures of social and psychological well-being. Importantly, the inmates in adult facilities report substantially and significantly greater rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and symptoms of mental illness, and are much more likely to be afraid for their safety, compared to those in juvenile facilities. Based on these results, we argue that incarceration should be used only as a last resort for juveniles, regardless of institutional auspice, but that when it is deemed necessary, juvenile correctional facilities represent the lesser of two evils.
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Q: Client side API google.script.run not working I am trying to get the div elements to be dynamically created and their values updated every second using the code:
setInterval(function() {
        google.script.run.withSuccesshandler(function(data) {
            var out = '';
            $(data).each(function() {
                out += "
" + $(this).val() + "
";
            });

            $('#item1').html(out);
        }).getReadyLine();
        }, 1000);

Ready Line, <?= getCountReadyLine() ?> items

Code.gs code:
 function getReadyLine() {
  var rawData = sheetMAT.getRange(3, 2, sheetMAT.getLastRow() - 2, 5).getValues();
  for (var i=0; i<rawData.length; i++) {
    if (rawData[i][3] === "A Ready Line" && rawData[i][4] === "ATY") {
      temp1 = ' ' + data[i][0];
      temp2.push(data[i][1], temp1);
      dataReadyLine.push(temp2);
      temp1 = '';
      temp2 = [];
    }
  }
  return dataReadyLine;
}

But it is giving the following error in the Console:
VM4084 userCodeAppPanel:67 Uncaught TypeError: google.script.run.withSuccesshandler is not a function
    at VM4084 userCodeAppPanel:67
(anonymous) @ VM4084 userCodeAppPanel:67
Why is it not recognized as a function? Is there any mistake in the code i am missing?

A: The correct syntax is
google.script.run.withSuccessHandler()

Please note 'H' in Handler is capital


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The first thing they notice is the twig in the front left-hand corner of the frame and the impression of itself it has left in the powdery soil as an elephant has compressed it to the ground. They see the wrinkled edges of the elephant's foot.
They see it because they have trained themselves to see it. This is the development of track consciousness. It's the development of searching images in the filing system of the brain so that you begin to see through the eyes of a tracker. You begin to notice what you're looking for.
Life is full of tracks. You have to train yourself to see what brings you to yourself and what dissipates you.
You have to learn to see the track. You have to become the sort of person who might notice the subtle signs of destiny if you walked across its path.
That is the way of the tracker.