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Yobe Govt. enrols 200,000 civil servants in contributory healthcare
Yobe State Contributory Health Care Management Agency (YSCHMA) has enroled over 200,000 people in the scheme.
Dr Babagana Tijjani, Executive Secretary of the scheme, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Sunday that the enrolees comprised of state and local government workers.
Tijani said the state and local government councils would contribute 3.25 per cent of the work force salaries' while the employees would contribute 1.75 per cent of their salaries.
According to him, the benefits of the scheme include coverage of all minor and major surgical operations, hospitalisation in secondary health facilities and immunisation.
He said that the scheme would allow pregnant women and children below the age of five, the aged and vulnerable persons to access efficient healthcare services.
The executive secretary noted that the Federal Government's Basic Healthcare Provision Fund Programme introduced in the state would complement the agency's informal programme, targeting the poor and vulnerable people.
"Our goal is to make our people have equal access to qualitative healthcare services delivery," Tijani said.
On workshop organised for the informal sector of the scheme , Tijani said the agency organised workshop in Kano to validate the informal sector programme.
According to him, the informal sector consists of the larger population of the state and that the workshop is to also deliberate on the implementation plan.
The executive secretary said that health financing was one of the priorities for developing the health sector in the state.
Tijani, who commended Gov. Mai Mala Buni for his support and commitment, also lauded the efforts of traditional rulers and other relevant stakeholders for contributing immensely to the success of the exercise.
He appealed to residents of the state to enrol into the scheme to enhance good health care delivery and also appealed to philanthropists to assist in paying premiums for poor people.
Lekki deep seaport will change Maritime economy – FG
Elimination of malaria by 2030 achievable— Consultant


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Soldering Irons Many members show an interest in electronics, but right now the club doesn't have any soldering irons for use in electronics projects. It would be nice to have some to lend out.

New Server OIT provided graciously provided the computer club with a server and a large drive array. However, OIT later sold the drive array without consulting the computer club. Though the server was free, the server isn't very appealing without the drive array. 32-bit, single core processor with 2GB memory, circa 2005 at the latest. As such, we'd like to replace it with something more powerful.

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Mónica Patricia Jaramillo Giraldo (born September 30, 1984 in Marinilla, Antioquia) known as Mónica Jaramillo, is a Colombian journalist, news presenter, model and former beauty pageant contestant.

Biography

Her parents are Hernando Jaramillo and Nora Giraldo, who have together two more children, Juan Fernando and Adriana, respectively. Mónica studied at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, where she majored in Social Communication and Journalism. Years after, she got a master's degree in Political Science at the University of Los Andes in 2013.

Career

She participated in Miss Colombia 2003, as Antioquia department contestant. In the final night, she was elected as second runner-up. Jeymmy Vargas and Catherine Daza were the first runner-up and winner, respectively. Later, in 2004, she competed in the international beauty pageant Reina Sudamericana, in Bolivia, and became first runner-up. Formerly, Mónica won the crown in the Reina Bolivariana pageant, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

In March 2004, she began her career in journalism, hosting the weekends edition of Teleantioquia Noticias, while she finished her journalism studies at college. Two years later, she hosted the primetime edition, and held that position until 2009, when she became the hostess of Un Café con Alonso (institutional program of the Mayor's Office of Medellín) and the central edition of Telemedellín news. In the second half of 2010, she began working in Día a día, a morning TV magazine on Caracol Televisión, as reporter of the show from Antioquia's capital. Subsequently, she became an anchor of international edition of CM& news.

In 2013 she joined Noticias Caracol, as First Edition reporter, presenting 15-minute-news-capsules across the morning news. Since 2014, Mónica has worked as radio hostess, in the morning radial magazine Mañanas Blu 10 AM, broadcast by Blu Radio, along with Catalina Plata, Esteban Hernández and William Calderón. Currently, Mónica co-host the noon edition of Noticias Caracol, alongside Vanessa de la Torre and directs Vive Medellín.

Personal life

Mónica is married with Luis Eduardo Valencia, Fabio Valencia Cossio's son. They have a son together, Joaquin (born May 4, 2016). Mónica has said that her workmate Jorge Alfredo Vargas and the former CNN en Español presenter Claudia Palacios, have been great influencers on her career, as well as the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. She was honoured by the Brazil government, with the Rio Branco medal distinction, due to her participation in the memorial ceremony to the deceased people of the Chapecoense team plane crash, held in Medellin in December 2016.

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Living people
Colombian television journalists
Colombian women journalists
Colombian television presenters
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Emil Birnbaum Fotozávody was established in 1903 in Austria–Hungary (later Czechoslovakia). It had business premises in several cities, including Rumburk and Prague. Some of the cameras produced by this company were assembled in-house, using German parts, while others were manufactured for Birnbaum by companies such as Balda, Eho, Franka and Richter. After WWII, the company stopped manufacturing cameras.


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Unknown Gladstone : the life of Herbert Gladstone, 1854-1930, The
Brown, Kenneth D
Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone,
Bloomsbury Publishing 2019 First edition.
EISBN 1350989347
Hawarden to Westminster.
Ireland and Back.
Into the Wilderness.
Resurgence.
The Home Office.
Wars to the Death.
Epilogue.
Notes --Bibliography.
"Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to enjoy a significant political career in his own right. Yet he has been generally relegated to the wings of history's stage, destined, it seems, to remain permanently in the shadow of his illustrious parent. Such an outcome would not have troubled him unduly, for his whole life was shaped by deep affection and respect for his father while as a political actor he was happiest operating in the political shadows rather than in the limelight - serving for 30 years as a Liberal MP for Leeds with short periods as Home Secretary (1905-1910) and, as Viscount Gladstone, Governor-General of South Africa (1910-1914). In exploring the intimate connection between Herbert Gladstone's public and private lives this new biography, the first for eighty years, reveals an unambitious, self-effacing man of faith and throws new light not only on his own career but also on significant episodes in British Victorian and early-twentieth century history."--Publisher's description.

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LETTER: Border adjustment tax could devastate NJ
Congress has a rare opportunity in the coming months to replace our nation's broken and dysfunctional tax code with one that is simple, efficient, and fair for all Americans. But one provision being debated would do the exact opposite — imposing $25 billion in new taxes on New Jersey businesses that import goods, while threatening thousands of their jobs.
Those are among the findings of a new report by my organization on the effects of a "border adjustment tax" that would impose on U.S. companies a new 20 percent tax on all goods they import, whether final products, component parts, or raw materials. New Jersey's congressional delegation should do everything it can to keep this harmful provision out of any tax reform legislation.
Start with the harms the tax will do to New Jersey's businesses, especially importers — 95 percent of which are small businesses. If the tax had been in place in 2014, it would have cost each of the state's 17,020 importers an average of $1.5 million that year. That's money that could otherwise be spent on higher salaries and more benefits for employees, or creating new jobs.
The state's retail industry would be especially hard hit, as factors like high taxes, government mandates, and costly regulations in recent decades have forced many retailers to depend on imported goods. With retailers accounting for 460,800 jobs in 2015, this new tax could jeopardize thousands of careers.
There's also the impact on family budgets. Studies have found much of the tax will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for everyday goods. According to an analysis by the National Retail Federation, the average family could see their expenses rise up to $1,700 in the first year alone. Clothing costs could rise over $400 per year, while another study found gas prices could rise by 30 cents per gallon or more.
These burdens will fall hardest on the poorest families, who already spend a larger portion of their income to clothe their family and drive to work.
Proponents argue that if this new tax is enacted, the U.S. dollar will strengthen relative to other currencies, and the prices we pay for imports will remain unchanged. This theory, however, has never been tested outside of the classroom. Even the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve has cast doubt on these claims, recently saying it is "very uncertain" what exactly would happen.
Ultimately, this new tax is an economic experiment that is not likely to end well for the ordinary New Jerseyan.
Comprehensive tax reform is a worthy goal — one that my organization strongly supports. But it must be done in a way that doesn't increase the burden on American families, or unfairly handicap certain sectors of the economy.
Rather than imposing a new 20 percent import tax to pay for tax cuts elsewhere, Congress should balance tax cuts with an equivalent amount of spending cuts. This can be achieved by eliminating tax loopholes for special interests, ending wasteful government programs, and shrinking the size of the federal workforce, to name just a few alternatives.
Federal lawmakers have a rare opportunity to fix the tax code and promote prosperity for all Americans, but this new import tax is the wrong approach. New Jersey's members of Congress should stand firm in opposition to this dangerous provision.
Nathan Nascimento
Vice President for Policy
Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce


What's the weather like in Vancouver in January?
Located on the west coast of Canada close to the country's border with the United Sates, Vancouver is a vibrant city with a climate that's similar to the UK, bringing four distinct seasons. It's winter in Vancouver during January, which is a cold and wet time of year for the city. If you're visiting in this month you'll need to bring plenty of warm layers to protect yourself from the near-freezing weather, as well as a waterproof coat for when it rains or snows.
The average temperature in Vancouver is a cold 4ºC in January, reaching highs of 6ºC and lows of 1ºC at night. With these temperatures, make sure you pack a warm winter coat and lots of winter clothes, and keep any little ones wrapped up when you're out exploring the city. You'll need to bring a raincoat with you too, as nearly two thirds of days in January have wet weather, with around 140mm of rain expected in total. The sea measures a chilly 8ºC this month.


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Galt Gaytops
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1957 Ontario Fastball Champions
Members of the 1957 Galt Gaytops fastball provincial champions were, front left: Violet Cohen (lf), Gwen Elsby (c), Pat Arsenault (rf), Theresa Graff (p), Marlene Holmes (p), Rosie Ball (3b), Audrey Holtzhauer (utl), Maxine Steele (cf). Back left: Tom Hawkshaw (coach), Merle Schoenfeld (2b), Barbara Wyganowski (utl), Valerie Toombs (rf), Reta Ball (3b), Melba Jewell (ss), Georgina Hawkshaw (utl), Joyce Leighton (1b).
The Galt Gaytops ladies fastball team was a talent-laden squad that drew hun- dreds of fans out to Lincoln Park, where they played their home games during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The team was founded by Ed Riley in the early 1950s, and Riley became the team's first coach and guided them through their early years.
Led by pitcher Marlene Holmes' arm and bat, as well as the bat of Maxine Steele (pitcher and OF), the team captured an Ontario title in 1957 and were a force to be reckoned with.
"They were very competitive," said coach Tom Hawkshaw, who took over the reigns after Riley left. "That's just the way the girls were. They found it more fun to win than to lose."
"That's the truth," said third baseman Reta Ball.
The team played through the 1950s against teams like Toronto, Stratford, Brantford, Sarnia and many others. Many of their home games were under the flood- lights at Lincoln Park.
Ball, who also doubled as team manager for a while, "laid down the laws," said Georgina Hawkshaw. "She'd tell us there was to be no drinking or smoking. Maybe that's why we did so well."
Playing in the now-defunct Big Four Ladies Fastball League, the Gaytops not only won a league title but also advanced to the finals at another time.
Detroit came up around that time to play the Gaytops. "They were going to the worlds," recalled Hawkshaw, "and they needed some good competition." The Gaytops, though they lost, gave them all they could handle in some extremely close games. "And we went down there and played," said Hawkshaw. "They were all close games."
Typical of the Gaytops' play was their 1957 drive to the Provincial Women's Softball Union (PWSU) title. They won the Ellen Anne trophy – emblematic of Intermediate AA supremacy – that year after beating Toronto's East York Kiwanis Girls 14-4 in a night game at Lincoln.
That night the Galt girls racked up five runs in the first inning, and three more in the second en route to the win. Steele earned the win on the mound, holding the Toronto squad to five singles, while fanning five. Galt managed 17 hits off Toronto hurler Moore, including Ball's homer and triple. Ball managed four hits in five trips to the plate.
Merle Schoenfeld and Melba Jewell hit doubles in the win, while all the Galt players had at least one hit each. Gwen Elsby was three-for-five at the plate, while first-baseman Joyce Leighton, who they called Satch, Marlene Holmes and Violet Cohen each went two-for-five.
"The infield was especially good and our pitchers were good," said Georgina Hawkshaw. "Mel Jewell was some shortstop and Reta Ball was great at third."
What was the reason for the Gaytops' success? They were a talented bunch, to be sure, but Ball had her own theory.
"I think the girls had a lot of fun. We all had fun doing it. That was probably the main thing."


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Mørdrup () – przystanek kolejowy w miejscowości Mørdrup, w Regionie Stołecznym, w Danii. Przystanek powstał w 1934 roku.

Znajduje się na Lille Nord i jest obsługiwany przez pociągi regionalne Lokaltog.

Linie kolejowe
 Linia Lille Nord

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Lokaltog

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w Regionie Stołecznym


In this podcast, Andrew Murray, discusses the findings from his studies on Everest in which he has investigated novel mechanisms that control mitochondrial function under hypoxic conditions. It is hoped that his discoveries will facilitate major breakthroughs in tailoring medical interventions to improve the outcome of critical care patients.
Presented by Joff Lacey with his guest; Andrew Murray a reader in metabolic physiology at the University of Cambridge. Since 2005, Andrew has been a member of the Xtreme Everest research group, studying mitochondrial function in cardiac and skeletal muscle at high altitude.


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Past Events › Events
Charlotte, N.C.– Levine Museum
NC United States
Talk, reading and Book Signing
Levine Museum of the New South and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture team up to host an evening with Douglas Blackmon
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Program begins at 7 pm. Book Signing and coffee will follow.
Admission is free. Suggested donation of $5 will support Levine Museum and Harvey B. Gantt Center education programs.
Reservations recommended; seating is limited. Call 704.333.1887 ext. 501 or email rsvp@museumofthenewsouth.org
Complimentary parking available next door in 7th St. Station parking deck.
Books will be on sale at the event.
Tuscaloosa, AL United States
6 p.m. -- Lecture
Gorgas Library, Room 205
Former Wall Street Journal bureau chief and Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas Blackmon will visit the University of Alabama to speak about his award-winning book"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" on Feb. 23.
Princeton University — Film Screening / Discussion
March 7, 2012 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Princeton, NY United States
Screening, Slavery by Another Name
McCormick Hall, Room 101
Princeton, New York
Q&A session to follow with Douglas A. Blackmon and me, moderated by Prof. William Gleason
Sponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in American Studies,www.princeton.edu/caas/events


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in Home and Away, Interviews
"I don't know if John and Marilyn should be together," admits Home and Away's Emily Symons
The star fills us in on the state of her alter ego's rocky marriage…
by Alice Penwill April 21, 2020, 12:01 am
The residents of Summer Bay are still coming to terms with the deadly siege at the hospital in Home and Away – and Marilyn in particular has been badly affected.
"The ongoing consequences are quite serious – even though she tries to adopt her usual bright outlook," explains Emily Symons, who plays Marilyn, as she chats to us on the phone from Sydney for this week's issue of Inside Soap. "Marilyn's quite traumatised by what she went through, and it brings up a lot of questions for her about how to live her life, what she values, and how she wants to move forward."
The fallout from the siege has seen Marilyn form a growing bond with Summer Bay newcomer Ari, who comforted her while they were both being held hostage. She is currently paying back the favour by letting Ari and his family stay in her and husband John's house…
"They're really struggling, and Marilyn wanted to help them settle into the area," shares Emily. "So, she sees that as an opportunity to do something for Ari and his family. But unfortunately, John is very opposed to the idea, and it is causing a lot of problems."
And ever since the Parata clan has been living there, John and Marilyn have been growing apart. Despite once seeming like one of the strongest couples in the Bay, Marilyn and John have had issues in their marriage for a while, says Emily…
"Sometimes I think they're a brilliant couple and we have lots of funny plots to play," she says. "But then other times, John isn't very kind to Marilyn and maybe isn't the sort of husband she needs. Marilyn was hurt over his part in the bushfires, and they never really recovered from that."
"Going through two traumatic experiences together is a real test of Marilyn and John's marriage."
Emily shares more about how much she's loving this new chapter of Marilyn's life in this week's issue of Inside Soap, which is on sale now.
Emily swapped the Aussie sunshine for the wilds of Yorkshire in between her Home and Away stints, spending seven years as Emmerdale barmaid Louise Appleton. Find out what Emily thinks her former alter ego would be up to now, and whether she might pop back to the Dales one day, in this week's magazine…
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Multiple Choice Questions [Solved] [1 Marks] of People as Resources Class 9th Social Science Economics
June 5, 2017 by Shivam Varshney
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (1 MARK)
Q.1. Why is literacy rate low among the females?
(a) lack of equal education opportunities (b) lack of transport facilities
(c) lack of infrastructure (d) lack of income
Ans. (a)
Q.2. In which state was the literacy rate highest as per 2001 study?
(a) Kerala (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Bihar (d) Orissa
Q.3. Which of the following is a significant step towards providing elementary education to
all the children in the age group of 6-14 years? [CBSE 2010]
(a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (b) Adult Education Programme
(c) Mid-day meal (d) None of the above
Q.4. Market activity refers to production for
(a) exchange (b) earning income (c) earning profit (d) all the above
Ans. (d)
Q.5. Increase in longevity of life is an indicator of
(a) good quality of life (b) improvement in health sector
(c) better HDI (Human Development Index) (d) all the above
Q.6. Self-consumption is
(a) non-production activity (b) non-market activity
(c) non-economic activity (d) none of the above
Ans. (b)
Q.7. Secondary sector includes
(a) trade (b) marketing (c) manufacturing (d) education
Ans. (c)
Q.8. One who can read and write in any language with understanding is termed as
(a) student (b) adult (c) child (d) literate
Q.9. What is India's position in scientific and technical manpower in the world?
(a) first (b) second (c) third (d) fourth
Q.10. Investment in human capital is expenditure on
(a) education (b) training (c) medical care (d) all the above
Q.11. The scheme for the establishment of residential schools to impart education to talented
children from rural areas is
(a) Kendriya Vidyalayas (b) Navodaya Vidyalayas
(c) Sarvodaya Vidyalayas (d) None of the aboves
Q.12. Services of housewives are included in
(a) national income (b) domestic income (c) household income (d) none of the above
Q.13. Infant mortality rate refers to the death of a child under the age of
(a) 1 year (b) 2 years (c) 3 years (d) 4 years
Q.14. Choose the non-market activities
(i) Vilas sells fish in the village market (ii) Vilas cooks food for his family
(iii) Sakal works in a private firm
(iv) Sakal looks after his younger brother and sister
(a) (i) & (ii) (b) (iii) & (iv) (c) (i) & (iii) (d) (ii) & (iv)
Q.15. Choose the primary sector activities
(i) Forestry (ii) Poultry farming
(iii) Animal husbandry (iv) Manufacturing
(a) (i) (b) (i), (ii), (iii) (c) (ii), (iii), (iv) (d) All the above
Q.16. Tertiary sector provides
(a) services (b) goods
(c) both goods and services (d) none of the above
Q.17. Quality of population depends upon [CBSE 2010]
(a) literacy rate (b) health (c) skill (d) all the above
Q.18. People as a resource refers to their
(a) educational skills (b) productive skills (c) health skills (d) none of the above
Q.19. Seasonal unemployement is found in
(a) urban areas (b) rural areas
(c) in remote areas (d) both in rural and urban areas
Q.20. Bribe taking is an
(a) economic activity (b) marketing activity
Q.21. The persons who are not working by choice are covered under
(a) seasonal unemployment (b) disguised unemployment
(c) educated unemployment (d) none of the above
Q.22. Disguised unemployment occurs when the number of persons working on a farm is
(a) only what is required (b) more than required
(c) less than required (d) None of the above
Q.23. If a person in rural areas cannot find jobs during some months of the year, which type
of employment is this called? [CBSE 2010]
(a) Structural unemployment (b) Cyclical unemployment
(c) Seasonal unemployment (d) None of these
Q.24. What is the literacy rate of India as per 2001 census? [CBSE 2010]
(a) 60% (b) 62% (c) 65% (d) 70%
Q.25. According to 2001 census, sex-ratio of India is : [CBSE 2010]
(a) 921 females per 1000 (b) 930 females per 1000
(c) 928 females per 1000 (d) 933 females per 1000
Q.26. Which of the following sectors is related to agriculture, forestry and dairy?
[CBSE 2010]
(a) Primary Sector (b) Tertiary Sector (c) Secondary Sector (d) None of the above
Q.27. PHC stands for [CBSE 2010]
(a) Public Health Club (b) Private Health Club
(c) Primary Health Centre (d) None of these
Q.28. In which of the following fields is disguised unemployment found? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Industries (b) Agriculture (c) Mining (d) Fisherise
Q.29. What is the major aim of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) To provide elementary education to women
(b) To provide elementary education to the rural poor
(c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
(d) To provide elementary education to the urban poor
Q.30. Which one of the following is related to the tertiary sector? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Agriculture (b) Forestry (c) Mining (d) Communication
Q.31. Which one among the following is the most labour absorbing sector? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Agriculture (b) Fisheries (c) Poultry farming (d) Mining
Q.32. Which is an economic activity in the following? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Work of Nurse at her home (b) Work of Doctor at their home
(c) Work of Teacher in the school (d) None of the above
Q.33. Which one of the following is considered important to create a 'virtuous cycle' by the
parents? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) To sand their children to the school
(b) To provide goods food to their children
(c) To join their children in corporate schools
(d) To take care of the health and education of their children
Q.34. Infant mortality rate in 2000 was : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) 85 (b) 70 (c) 75 (d) 35
Q.35. What is the life expectancy in India according to the census of 2000? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) 72 years (b) 53 years (c) 64 years (d) 80 years
Q.36. Tenth Plan endeavoured to increase enrolment in higher education from 6% to :
[2010 (T-1)]
(a) 7% (b) 9% (c) 10% (d) 12%
Q.37. Decrease in IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) of a country signifies : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Increase in life expectancy (b) Increase in GNP
(c) Economic development of a country (d) Increase in number of colleges in a country
Q.38. Strike the odd one out (with reference to population) : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Education (b) Medical Care (c) Training (d) Computers
Q.39. The number of females per thousand males refers to : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Sex Ratio (b) Literacy Rate
(c) Infant Mortality Rate (d) Birth Rate
Q.40. At Rampur village, in an agricultural field 6 men are required for weeding, but 10 people
are doing the work. This kind of employment is known as : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Disguised unemployment (b) Seasonal unemployment
(c) Rural unemployment (d) All of these
Q.41. Which one of the following is not a cause of urban unemployment? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Mass migration from rural to urban areas
(b) Slow rate of economic development
(c) Maladjustment between the demand and supply of labour
(d) Caste system
Q.42. Census refers to : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Total no. of babies born
(b) Official counting of population done after every then years
(c) Total no. of infants that are vaccinated
(d) Recording of Births and Deaths every year
Q.43. Which one of the following statements is correct with reference to tertiary sector?
(a) In these activities goods are either grown on the earth or dug out from the earth
(b) These activities transform primary goods into some commodities with the help of manual
labour or machines
(c) These activities generate services rather than goods
(d) This sector is primarily known as service sector
Q.44. When there is investment made in the form of education, training and medical care, the
population becomes : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Working capital (b) Human capital (c) Fixed capital (d) Capital growth
Q.45. Education contributes towards the growth of a society. It also enhances the : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) National income (b) Cultural richness
(c) Efficiency of governance (d) All of the above
Q.46. Educated unemployment is partly because of : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) slower rate of industrial expansion (b) improper educational system
(c) both a and b (d) none of these
Q.47. The workforce population of India includes people from the age group of : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) 10-59 years (b) 15-59 years (c) 20-59 years (d) 25-59 years
Q.48. Activities like trade, transport, health, banking, insurance etc. are included in the
________ sector. [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Secondary (b) Primary
(c) Manufacturing (d) Tertiary
Q.49. In rural India, two types of unemployment exist : [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Disguised and optional (b) Seasonal and undisguised
(c) Seasonal and optional (d) Seasonal and disguised
Q.50. Number of babies born for every 1000 people during a year is called [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Death rate (b) Birth rate
(c) Growth rate (d) Population increase
Q.51. In the secondary sector, which is the most labour absorbing unit? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Small scale manufacturing
(b) Medium scale manufacturing
(c) Large scale manufacturing
Q.52. Which one of the following cannot be regarded as building of the human capital in a
country? [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Spending resources on education (b) Providing training of industrial workers
(c) Increasing salary of workers (d) Providing health to all
Q.53. Government has set schools in each district called [2010 (T-1)]
(a) Army Schools
(b) Navodaya Vidyalayas
(c) Sainik Schools
(d) Missionary Schools
Q.54. Number of deaths for every 1000 people in a year is called [2010 (T-1)]
(c) Decrease Rate (d) Population Decrease
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Uninformed and uninvolved: ResX and the dystopian future of undergraduate housing
By Vol. 255 Editorial Board on February 15, 2019
Monied clusters of Greek organizations, geographically segregated ethnic houses, and nepotistic, thematically-lifeless Row houses plague Stanford's housing system, bemoan University administrators. Stanford has consequently adopted the belief that a vast overhaul of campus housing is the cure-all for these ills: The University's ResX Task Force has recently been discussing what they call "the ideal neighborhood concept." Substantive details on this proposed housing restructure are scarce. Nonetheless, we believe it would be useful to infer what the consequences of such systematic changes might be.
If Stanford were to adopt a series of "neighborhoods," akin to the residential colleges of Harvard or Yale, which exist within a single building, our iteration would see each neighborhood consist of an incongruous mix of existing residential buildings. The University would likely force current residences to drop their unique themes and instead repackage them into the cookie-cutter dorms of each given neighborhood. Upon assignment to a particular neighborhood, it is unclear whether students would be able to deviate from it in the remainder of their four years. In an attempt to simulate this proposed housing panacea, Provost Persis Drell even suggested in ResX's Charge that the task force "build a new dorm complex that can serve as a test case and foundation for a future vision of residential life."
Beyond the fundamental failures of a neighborhood system, there are intrinsic issues with the structure and composition of the ResX Task Force at large. According to its website, a corpus of "faculty, students and alumni volunteers" make up the group's leadership. There are no current students among those in charge. The two class of 2018 graduates on the committee barely scraped the surface of Stanford's housing diversity in their time on campus — having collectively lived in one freshman dorm, four-class dorms and the Human Biology-themed Storey Row house out of 85 total residences.
The rest of the committee is comprised of Student Affairs representatives, professors (some of whom are past or current Resident Fellows), a member of the Board of Trustees and a co-founder of a private equity firm. Even if the committee includes a diversity of non-student members, last February's Long-Range Planning White Papers for residential education suggest that robust student input should inform the group's charge. Because residential changes "are personal to [students] and can be a source of stress for some students," the White Papers recommend that "student voices should be included in designing changes." We agree. A coalition of students with a multiplicity of residential experiences should make up a substantial proportion of the committee, rather than the motley crew of administrators with zero or limited firsthand knowledge of the intricacies of campus living today.
Furthermore, the specific metrics that the ResX Task Force is using to evaluate the current state of student life on campus remain to be seen or heard. There is no empirical evidence — at least, none that is available to the public — to suggest that the failure of the current housing system is so egregious as to demand an overhaul as extreme as the neighborhood system. The same Long-Range Planning White Paper corroborates this expressed need for more concrete metrics, recommending that Residential Education's (ResEd) "vision must rely on strong empirical data to develop strategies" for future campus residential communities. However, ResEd has never sent representatives to visit any themed houses to assess how well they adhere to their theme or to measure the strength of their in-house communities. Nor has there ever been any sort of all-campus climate survey to gather the pulse on student satisfaction with the housing system. Without any sort of evidence-based proof to defend its validity, the neighborhood system is an ill-fated and ill-informed shot in the dark attempt to solve student housing issues on campus.
Providing broad accessibility to desirable housing options while also maintaining distinctive communities is a challenge that all universities face in designing the residential experience — especially true in Stanford's case, where 99 percent of undergraduate students live on campus. And, despite all of its imperfections, Stanford's housing system currently grants wide latitude for students to select a community to which they feel a sense of belonging and a lifestyle with which they align. After their freshman year, students are free to self-select into communities that interest them, or to draw into houses with their choice of friends. With the neighborhood program, the University would effectively force students into artificial social groups that could potentially last the entire duration of their time at Stanford. Such a move would not only strike as patronizing, but as an unnecessary assault on free choice and free expression, which is so often conveyed through one's housing community.
In many ways, ResEd's move to credibly reconfigure Stanford's housing system smacks of hypocrisy, given its recent administrative blunders in handling delicate housing situations. Its decision to revoke and suddenly reinstate Outdoor House's theme for next year due to an "administrative misstep," as well as to rescind and restore fraternity Theta Delta Chi's housing due to a "procedural flaw," are evidence of managerial failures that should not go unchecked.
No university's housing system is perfect — and certainly, neither is Stanford's. However, we believe that simpler, tangible changes will optimize the system in ways that a total evisceration of institutional memory via the neighborhood system never could.
For one, Stanford's current system underserves the freshman community. Stanford consistently fails to accommodate a large portion of the freshman class' first-choice rankings for placement into all-frosh dorms, leaving many freshmen in four-class dorms unsatisfied with their residential experience. To address this issue, why not transform notoriously unpopular upperclass dorms such as Trancos into all-freshman territory, given that all-frosh dorms consistently face high demand from incoming students? More generally, what about moving freshmen off lackluster four-class dorms on faraway West campus? How about moving the Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program from behind the Tresidder parking lot on socially isolating central campus to Branner or Kimball, so it retains its unique academic-living balance while getting a taste of the much sought-after, all-frosh experience? Currently, SLE students are mixed with other non-frosh and upperclass students. Non-SLE frosh overwhelmingly report that living in SLE-mixed dorms is a negative experience due to the insular nature of the SLE program. The entire SLE program could easily fit into one or two dorms alone, a simple fix to this problem.
Ethnic-themed dorms like Casa Zapata and Okada suffer from a lack of demand among upperclassmen who find the residences' awkward location among freshman dorms unappealing. Providing such communities better living space on the Row, such as near Native American cultural house Muwekma-Tah-Ruk, or in the newer dorms on west campus, would be a welcome solution. There are, of course, many more ways to improve our undergraduate housing arrangements.
Asking students may be a good place to start.
We implore the University to strongly consider the negative implications that the proposed neighborhood system bodes for the future of student life. Rather than displacing entire communities and attempting to force the spontaneous generation of new ones, Stanford should acknowledge that strong communities require breathing room and time to incubate organically. The ResX Task Force approach to student housing is ill-informed, extreme and — given the lack of undergraduate representation among its leadership — failing on its own terms.
Contact the Editorial Board at opinions 'at' stanforddaily.com.
A previous version of this article mistakenly identified the ResX Task Force as being a branch of Residential Education. In fact, the two administrative bodies are separate. The Daily regrets this error.
Vol. 255 Editorial Board
Editorials represent the views of The Stanford Daily, an independent newspaper serving Stanford and the surrounding community. The Daily's Vol. 255 Editorial Board consists of Editor-in-Chief Claire Wang '20, Executive Editor Anna-Sofia Lesiv '20, Managing Editor of Opinions Elizabeth Lindqwister '21, Harrison Hohman '19 and Gabe Rosen '19. To contact the Editorial Board, submit an op-ed (limited to 700 words) at opinions@stanforddaily.com or submit a letter to the editor (limited to 500 words) at eic@stanforddaily.com.


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Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
This text is described in Internationale Situationniste #5 (p. 11) as "a platform for discussion within the SI, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement."
Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).
I. Capitalism: A Society Without Culture
Culture can be defined as the ensemble of means through which a society thinks of itself and shows itself to itself, and thus decides on all aspects of the use of its available surplus-value. That is to say, it is the organization of everything over and beyond the immediate necessities of the society's reproduction. All forms of capitalist society today are in the final analysis based on the generalized and (at the mass level) stable division between directors and executants: those who give orders and those who carry them out. Transposed onto the plane of culture, this means the separation between "understanding" and "doing," the inability to organize (on the basis of permanent exploitation) the continuously accelerating domination of nature toward any goal whatsoever. For the capitalist class, dominating production requires monopolizing the understanding of productive activity, of work. To achieve this, work is on the one hand more and more parcelized, i.e. rendered incomprehensible to those who do it; and on the other hand, it is reconstituted as a unity by specialized agencies. But these agencies are themselves subordinated to the real directorate, which alone possesses the theoretical comprehension of the whole since it dictates the direction of production in accordance with its general directives. However, this comprehension and these objectives are themselves subjected to a certain arbitrariness since they are cut off from practice and even from all realistic knowledge, which it is in no one's interest to transmit. The total social activity is thus split into three levels: the workshop, the office and the directorate. Culture, in the sense of active and practical comprehension of society, is likewise cut apart into these three aspects. These aspects are reunited (partially and clandestinely) only by people's constant transgression of the separate sectors in which they are regimented by the system.
The formative mechanism of culture thus amounts to a reification of human activities, a reification which fixates the living, which models the transmission of experience from one generation to another on the transmission of commodities, and which strives to ensure the past's domination over the future. This cultural functioning enters into contradiction with capitalism's constant need to obtain people's adherence and to enlist their creative activity, within the narrow limits within which it imprisons them. In short, the capitalist order can survive only by ceaselessly fabricating a new past for itself. This can be seen particularly clearly in the cultural sector proper, whose publicity is based on the periodic launching of pseudoinnovations.
Work thus tends to be reduced to pure execution and thereby made absurd. As technology evolves, its application is trivialized; work is simplified and becomes more and more absurd. But this absurdity also extends to the offices and laboratories: the ultimate determinations of their activity come from outside them, from the political sphere that runs the whole society. On the other hand, as the activity of the offices and laboratories is integrated into the overall functioning of capitalism, the necessity to fully exploit this activity requires the introduction into it of the capitalist division of labor, that is, of parcelization and hierarchization. The logical problem of scientific synthesis then intersects with the social problem of centralization. The result of these changes is, contrary to appearances, a general lack of culture at all levels of knowledge: scientific synthesis is no longer carried out, science no longer comprehends itself. Science is no longer a real and practical clarification of people's relation with the world; it has destroyed the old representations without being able to provide new ones. The world as unified totality becomes undecipherable; certain specialists are the only people who possess a few fragments of rationality -- fragments which they themselves are incapable of communicating, even to each other.
This state of things gives rise to a certain number of conflicts. The technical advances that are a natural tendency of the development of material processes (and largely even a natural tendency of the development of the sciences) often conflict with the technologies that selectively apply those advances in strict accordance with the requirements of exploiting the workers and thwarting their resistance. There is also a conflict between capitalist imperatives and people's elementary needs. Thus the contradiction between present nuclear practices and a still generally prevalent taste for living is echoed even in the moralizing protests of certain physicists. The alterations that man can now bring about in his own nature (ranging from plastic surgery to controlled genetic mutations) also demand an alteration of the society: its self-managed transformation through the abolition of all specialized directors. Everywhere the vastness of the new possibilities poses the urgent alternative: revolutionary solution or science-fiction barbarism. The compromise represented by the present society is contingent on the preservation of a status quo which is in fact everywhere constantly out of its control.
Present culture as a whole can be characterized as alienated in the sense that every activity, every moment of life, every idea, every type of behavior, has a meaning only outside itself, in an "elsewhere" which, being no longer in heaven, is only the more maddening to try and locate: a utopia, in the literal sense of the word, dominates the life of the modern world.
Having from the workshop to the laboratory emptied productive activity of all meaning for itself, capitalism strives to place the meaning of life in leisure activities and to reorient productive activity on that basis. Since production is hell in the prevailing moral schema, real life must be found in consumption, in the use of goods. But for the most part these goods have no use except to satisfy a few private needs that have been pumped up to meet the requirements of the market. Capitalist consumption imposes a general reduction of desires by its regular satisfaction of artificial needs, which remain needs without ever having been desires -- authentic desires being constrained to remain unfulfilled (or compensated in the form of spectacles). The consumer is in reality morally and psychologically consumed by the market. But above all, these goods have no social use because the social horizon does not extend beyond the factory; outside the factory everything is organized as a desert (dormitory towns, freeways, parking lots...) -- the terrain of consumption. However, the society constituted in the factory has the exclusive domination over this desert. The real use of the goods is simply as status symbols which, in accordance with an inevitable tendency of the industrial commodity, have at the same time become obligatory for everyone. The factory is symbolically reflected in leisure activities, though with enough room for individual variation to allow for the compensation of a few frustrations. The world of consumption is in reality the world of the mutual spectacularization of everyone, the world of everyone's separation, estrangement and nonparticipation. The directorial sphere also strictly directs this spectacle, which is composed automatically and miserably in accordance with imperatives external to the society, imperatives to which absurd values are attributed. (The directors themselves, as living persons, can also be considered as victims of this automated directorial machine.)
Outside of work, the spectacle is the dominant mode through which people relate to each other. It is only through the spectacle that people acquire a (falsified) knowledge of certain general aspects of social life, from scientific or technological achievements to prevailing types of conduct and orchestrated meetings of international political celebrities. The relation between authors and spectators is only a transposition of the fundamental relation between directors and executants. It answers perfectly to the needs of a reified and alienated culture: the spectacle-spectator relation is in itself a staunch bearer of the capitalist order. The ambiguity of all "revolutionary art" lies in the fact that the revolutionary aspect of any particular spectacle is always contradicted and offset by the reactionary element present in all spectacles. This is why capitalist society, in order to streamline its own functioning, must above all continually refine its mechanism of spectacularization. This is obviously a complex mechanism, for if its main role is to propagate the capitalist order, it nevertheless must not appear to the public as a mere capitalistic delirium; it must involve the public by incorporating elements of representation that correspond -- in fragments -- to social rationality. It must sidetrack the desires whose satisfaction is forbidden by the ruling order. For example, modern mass tourism presents cities and landscapes not in order to satisfy authentic desires to live in such human or geographical milieus; it presents them as pure, rapid, superficial spectacles (spectacles from which one can gain prestige by reminiscing about them). Similarly, striptease is the most obvious form of the degradation of eroticism into a mere spectacle.
The evolution and the conservation of art have been governed by these lines of force. At one pole, art is purely and simply coopted by capitalism as a means of conditioning the population. At the other pole, capitalism grants art a perpetual privileged concession: that of pure creative activity -- an isolated creativity which serves as an alibi for the alienation of all other activities (and which thus also makes it the most expensive and prestigious status symbol). But at the same time, this sphere reserved for "free creative activity" is the only one in which the question of what we do with life and the question of communication are posed fully and practically. In this sense art can reflect the basic antagonisms between partisans and adversaries of the officially dictated reasons for living. The established meaninglessness and separation give rise to the general crisis of traditional artistic means -- a crisis linked to the experience of alternative ways of living or to the demand for such experience. Revolutionary artists are those who call for intervention, and who have themselves intervened in the spectacle in order to disrupt and destroy it.
II. Culture and Revolutionary Politics
The revolutionary movement can be nothing less than the struggle of the proletariat for the actual domination and deliberate transformation of all aspects of social life -- beginning with the management of production and work by the workers themselves, directly deciding everything. Such a change would immediately imply a radical transformation of the nature of work and the development of a new technology designed to ensure the workers' domination over the machines. This radical transformation of the meaning of work will lead to a number of consequences, the main one of which is undoubtedly the shifting of the center of interest of life from passive leisure to the new type of productive activity. This does not mean that overnight all productive activities will become in themselves passionately interesting. But to work toward making them so, by a general and ongoing reconversion of the ends as well as the means of industrial work, will in any case be the minimum passion of a free society. In such a society, all activities will tend to blend the life previously separated between leisure and work into a single but infinitely diversified flow. Production and consumption will merge and be superseded in the creative use of the goods of the society.
Such a program proposes to people no reason to live other than their own construction of their own lives. This presupposes not only that people be objectively freed from real needs (hunger, etc.), but above all that they begin to develop real desires in place of the present compensations; that they refuse all forms of behavior dictated by others and continually reinvent their own unique fulfillments; and that they no longer consider life to be the mere maintaining of a certain stability, but that they aspire to the unlimited enrichment of their acts.
Such demands today are not based on some sort of utopianism. They are based first of all on the struggle of the proletariat at all levels, and on all the forms of explicit refusal or profound indifference that the unstable ruling society constantly has to combat with every means. They are also based on the lesson of the fundamental defeat of all attempts at less radical changes. Finally, they are based on the extremist strivings and actions appearing today among certain sectors of youth (despite all the efforts at disciplining and repressing them) and in a few artistic milieus. But this basis is indeed utopian in another sense of the word, in that it involves inventing and experimenting with solutions to current problems without being preoccupied with whether or not the conditions for their realization are immediately present. (It should be noted that this utopian sort of experimentation now also plays a key role in modern science.) This temporary, historical utopianism is legitimate; and it is necessary because it serves to incubate the projection of desires without which free life would be empty of content. It is inseparable from the necessity to dissolve the present ideology of everyday life, and therefore the bonds of everyday oppression, so that the revolutionary class can disabusedly discover present and future possibilities of freedom. Utopian practice makes sense, however, only if it is closely linked to the practice of revolutionary struggle. The latter, in its turn, cannot do without such utopianism without being condemned to sterility. Those seeking an experimental culture cannot hope to realize it without the triumph of the revolutionary movement, while the latter cannot itself establish authentic revolutionary conditions without resuming the efforts of the cultural avant-garde toward the critique of everyday life and its free reconstruction.
Revolutionary politics thus has as its content the totality of the problems of the society. It has as its form the experimental practice of a free life through organized struggle against the capitalist order. The revolutionary movement must thus itself become an experimental movement. Henceforth, wherever it exists, it must develop and resolve as profoundly as possible the problems of a revolutionary microsociety. This comprehensive politics culminates in the moment of revolutionary action, when the masses abruptly intervene to make history and discover their action as direct experience and as festival. At such moments they undertake a conscious and collective construction of everyday life which, one day, will no longer be stopped by anything.
PIERRE CANJUERS, GUY DEBORD 20 July 1960
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"So the healing didn't take," Dream said quietly. They started walking towards the house.
"Ah," Dream said apologetically. He furrowed his brow in thought. Should he try and convince her to accept healing? Was he only delaying the inevitable? Without meaning to he shifted his body into the form of a Dwarf. It was the form he took when he was most pensive. An unconscious nod to his old friend Torrun.
"Um, is that wise?" Wendell asked Dream, indicating the transformation. This snapped him out of his thoughts and made him realize what he'd done.
The two of them walked on in quiet. Dream noted that the woods were cleared even further away than they were the last time he was here. More of the land had been cultivated into farmland. In his youth he would have considered this an insult to Great Apis. But he knew better now; a good friend had once taught him that.
The house was small and modest, obviously maintained and cared for by the current owner. Dream was familiar with that handiwork. He had been the one to teach it. A small, well-tended garden was flourishing in front of the house near the porch step. On that porch a woman waited patiently for the two of them. She had a solemn look about her as Dream and Wendell came up. "Father," she said as they stepped up onto the porch.
"It is why you came all this way, isn't it?" Lark's sharp words pierced Dream's heart and saddened him. No, he realized. It would be a long, long time before that rift was healed. He looked at her sadly; she stared back at him coldly. Neither said anything more but their faces said everything.
Wendell cleared his throat after a moment. The two of them broke from their trance, suddenly remembering they weren't alone and that there was someone they cared about dying just inside the house. "Let's go in," Wendell suggested. With one last look back at his daughter Dream turned and walked in with Wendell. Lark wasn't looking at him anymore – she was staring off the porch, looking past the fields at the forest beyond.
The interior of the house was sparse. The two of them walked to the master bedroom. They knocked at the door. "Come in," a familiar male voice said. Dream opened the door and walked in ahead of Wendell. It had been too long since he last came back, Dream realized. He barely recognized the aged woman sleeping on the bed. She was frail and sickly, layered in blankets. Her breathing was labored. She didn't stir from her sleep when he entered. Her hand was visible at the side of the bed and being held by the owner of the male voice. Dream recognized the rings on her hand – one of which he had given her himself, long ago. There was no mistaking her now. Of course, her identity had never been in doubt. He looked over at the man holding her hand.
"I heard you were coming," he simply said to Dream.
"It's been too long, Bron," Dream said to him. The man was powerfully built. Tanned, muscular, but gentle. Like his father before him. He had worked the farm ever since he was old enough to hold a shovel as a boy. He was running it full time before he was an adult. Silent Dream had spent a lot of time visiting Bron and his mother whenever he could after Osiris' resurrection. He told Bron and Crystal the stories of his time with The Nameless Man. He shared with them the wisdom which The Nameless Man had shared with him.
As his duties to the Internalists increased however, he had gone longer and longer between visits. He recalled that it had been perhaps a decade since he last came by. Bron's hair had streaks of grey in it. Dream still looked like a strong Kankoran adult. Even Dream's daughter looked older than Dream did. Mortals aged; the Divine did not.
Bron nodded. "It's not just that. She wants to see Him one last time." Concern radiated from Silent Dream. He didn't hold it back in time. Bron simply continued. "She's been tending his garden. Even after being ordered on bed rest she would sneak out and work it. She's never stopped hoping he would come home." Dream could hear the hardened sadness in his voice. The boy who never got to see his father again. The boy who had to watch his mother pine for her lost husband for years. The boy who was visited sporadically by his father's friends and families but after the visit was left with little family of his own.
Crystal opened her eyes and looked first at Bron, then at Dream and Wendell. She opened her mouth to speak but a raspy croak was all that came out. In a thought Dream opened his senses and let the words in her mind reach everyone in the room.
Dream couldn't help but let the concern flow from him again. "He's not the man you remember. He hasn't been for a long time. He…" Dream paused for a moment, trying to think of the words.
"Mom…" Bron said. He squeezed her hand gently. She closed her eyes again but they could still hear her voice.
"Let me sleep. I'm tired…" Her voice trailed off as she drifted off. Dream looked at Wendell and then at Bron.
"Let me know if she wakes up again. Helping her talk with you is the least I could do." Bron and Wendell nodded.
My name is Silent Dream. I come from one of the Emirin Tribes of Kankoran. I am a citizen of the Wolfen Empire. This is my journal. A friend once said I should write "things that have happened to you." These have been the things that have happened to me.
He remembered that it echoed his very first journal entry. It really did seem like that was all from another world. He closed and placed the book back on the shelf, then went outside to the porch where his daughter still waited. She heard him coming but didn't turn around or acknowledge him. He walked to the other side of the porch and looked down at the small garden. Only a few paces to each side, easily within the bounds of The Man's domain. Seeing that it was flourishing gave him hope that maybe The Man hadn't completely lost himself in his new role.
He turned to look at his daughter, Piercing Lark. She was born about a year after the resurrection. She aged slower than the other Kankoran did. He suspected it was due to her psychic strength. At this point she looked older than Dream was when he joined Crisis, but not yet old enough to have grand-pups. She wore her years well but they still clearly showed in her stripes. She was blessed with great psychic power which made her gifted at healing but unlike her mother she was not limited to that discipline only. She reminded Dream so much of his beloved Rolling Hills that it was tough to be around her sometimes. When Hills passed away Dream had kept his distance from Lark, hiding behind the challenges of the burgeoning Northern branch of the Guild. In turn she had directed her grief into anger at him, and over time a great divide formed between them.
"Lark…" he started to say.
She quickly cut him off. "Save it Dad. I'm here for them. Not for you." She was referring to Crystal and Bron, and to how she had spent many days of her youth on this farm. She and Rolling Hills accompanied Dream on many of his visits to see his old friends and their families over the years. Bron, Vorrun, Rhafenruna, Auberon, Kolbjorn, Zara'shan, Alana, and all the others… She had grown up with them all and they were a family of sorts. She hopped off the porch and walked around to the back of the house. He heard the back door open and close. Dream stayed on the porch by himself.
Some time passed with Dream leaning there, lost in his thoughts and staring out at the forest. Suddenly he noticed there were no sounds of nature around him anymore. He looked around, concerned for a moment, and when his eyes returned to the front of the house he saw Him standing next to the small garden.
He was a gaunt, skeletal figure wearing all black. The Man With No Name. No, Dream reminded himself. The Man had a name. It had been trusted to him long ago and Dream still knew it. But The Man had chosen to call himself Death these days. His soul-bearing scythe, once a tie to his life of farming, was slung purposefully over his back. The Man approached the house slowly but deliberately. He did not look at Silent Dream. Dream considered for a moment calling him by his old name. Would he even remember it? Would it help bring him back to his old frame of mind? Did he have the right to even try? Before he could make a decision The Man disappeared. A few moments later he heard Wendell call for him from Crystal's room.
Dream returned to Crystal's room to find Wendell already drawing the sheets up to cover her body. Bron was still by her side, with Lark beside him comfortingly. Dream had the presence of mind to whisper a prayer to the Gods of Light and to Khonsu at her passing. As the four of them grieved the small garden outside was already beginning to wilt.
Note: This story about The Demigod of Psionics occurred decades after the resurrection of Osiris. It appears in no narrative and exists only for you.
It was beautiful and it shows that sometimes we champions pay the most for the great deeds we do. It was a war played in a different key but a magnitude greater than most.
"As the four of them grieved the small garden outside was already beginning to wilt." Heartbreaking and poignant- clearly communicates the curse of immortality.


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Midsummer Night's Dream at IU Opera Theater
I went and read the Peter Jacobi article in the Herald-Times before writing this. He's got something of a reputation for sticking to positive items in his reviews, and if that's true, this opera must have been deeply troubled, since he presents a series of negative comments from the director, even if you have to read between the lines a little to get them. "Lack of stagecraft", "Not enough rehearsal time", "Children may need to be miked", were some of his comments.
All that said, I thought the opera was stunning. Now, when I write reviews, I write them not just of the production, but of the opera. I can't compare this production to the debut at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1960, or even the one at the London Coliseum in 1994. So I wasn't sure if the role of Oberon was always played by a countertenor or if that was just someone's cool idea (it always is) or if Puck is always a ballet dancer who shouts his lines (he shouts, but isn't necessarily a dancer).
And I wasn't blown away by Oberon at first. It took me a while to get used to the rhythm of his lines, but once I did, I thought it fit in perfectly with the beautiful mystic green in the abstract sets and lighting. The fairy costumes were done in modern punk, which was bright and colorful enough to work perfectly with the sets, and the four lovers were dressed in street clothes. Lysander came out in a T-shirt with the name of a fraternity on it, which got a big laugh when Oberon instructed Puck to "Look for a mortal in Athenian dress." (Athenian, fraternities, Greeks, get it?).
Some of the children did have to be miked; of the four majors, I think it was two and two, but that didn't matter. As far as stagecraft, it's certainly been a long-held belief of mine that singers can't act, which has been true here at IU at least. So the fight scene was drab at best. The rude mechanicals weren't bad - I suppose you can tell a good actor by how convincingly he can badly act - and Bottom was pretty good, although my "feel" for the character has always been a bit more boorish.
Of course, that's a judgment on the play. And while I'm at it, I could have happily left after Act 2, because I always feel badly for the mechanicals when everyone makes fun of them. But the music, the countertenor, the costumes, the dancer, in the first two acts, all combined together to make this one of the three or four best operas I've seen at IU. Dreamy.
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Rabbi Pinto, spiritual leader to real estate VIPs, arrested, interrogated for bribery
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Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto — a spiritual leader with well-established ties to New York's real estate community — was arrested Thursday in Israel, and is being investigated for money laundering and attempting to bribe law enforcement, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. His wife, Debora Rivka Pinto, was also arrested, according to the report. The couple has been released, and is on house arrest.
A lawyer for the Pintos called the allegations "baseless," Haaretz reported.
Pinto, 39, is said to be a religious advisor to a bevy of local real estate VIPs. The developer Haim Binstock and the Sapir Organization's Zina Sapir are reported to be followers of the rabbi, and the developer Ben Zion Suky — named in an Upper East Side foreclosure suit earlier this year involving Pinto's wife — is a close aide to Pinto. Other industry figures, such as Douglas Elliman's Mickey Roth, are reported to have consulted with Pinto on business matters.
The religious leader has been planning to build a synagogue on the ground floor of Heritage at Trump Place, located at 240 Riverside Boulevard. Ilan Bracha, a Keller Williams broker and the founder of the Bracha Group there, and Binstock, had purchased the place and had planned to turn it over to the rabbi. Last year, Binstock's wife was reported to have written $56,000 check to save the 2,700-square-foot space from foreclosure.
Developers Serge Hoyda and Yair Levy, LK Realty Group's Levi Krinsky and real estate attorney Terrence Oved were among those at a 2010 fundraiser on behalf of the synagogue that was to be built.
Pinto has also been tied to a federal investigation over whether illegal donations were made by the rabbi's followers to Rep. Michael Grimm, who represents Staten Island and portions of Brooklyn. The rabbi's former aide, Ofer Biton, was arrested in August for immigration fraud — and is alleged to have solicited campaign donations on behalf of Grimm above and beyond legal limits and from those who are not citizens of the United States. This month, The Real Deal called Rep. Michael Grimm's race against Mark Murphy for New York's 13th District seat one key political battles with significant implications for real estate and housing. —Gabrielle Birkner
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Soon it´s christmas time again… i am very much looking forward to meet Nils and all other wonderful "christmas-friends" on stage at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm. Monday 27th nov. Come around, if you can!
What am excellent performance you and the rest gave last night. Many thanks.


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Here's the deal with raising growth capital for your startup: it will only last you so long, and you'll spend it far faster than you ever imagined. Managing your burn rate, or the pace at which you spend your cash, requires a balanced approach to risk. There's no getting around it; you need to spend money to make money. So, at certain times in your startup lifecycle, you'll hit the gas pedal and blow through some money to make things happen. On the other side, you should be prepared to slow down (or pull the emergency brake) if you're moving through your capital too fast.
The thought of finally obtaining the funds to take their business to the next level, and the possibility that it could all slip away (or burn up, if you will) keeps many founders up at night. Founders find themselves fixated on questions like how much runway is left? What's the zero-cash date? Knowing how to calculate your burn rate, and keep it low, are fundamental to startup success. Read on to see how it's done.
Your burn rate isn't a one-time calculation. It's not something you cross off your list. Rather, it's something you closely monitor so you can thoughtfully approach big-ticket expense decisions, such as hiring. Your burn rate will vary drastically compared to other startups. This is not about "keeping up with the Joneses"; it's about being reasonable with your spending so that you don't have to shutter your business.
For example: You're a SaaS company with 9 employees. You have a gross monthly burn of $80,000. You're bringing in $20,000 a month in revenue, so your net burn is $60,000. You just received a $2M round of funding. This gives you a runway of about 33 months ($2M divided by $60,000). This is great, but now that you've received a nice funding round, you'll likely scale up fast by hiring additional people and investing in more resources, dramatically increasing your burn rate. It's not uncommon for a serious equity raise to buy a fast-scaling company 12–18 months of runway, if not less.
Startup investors, including venture capital firms, will ask you about your burn rate. They'll want to look under your financial hood to see how you're spending your money and if you're disciplined in your approach. One concern they look for: startups that spend wildly and irrationally after receiving investments. These startups may lose their scrappy nature and frivolously overspend, something VCs and other investors want to avoid.
But don't feel like your burn rate must be zero. Smart technology investors know SaaS companies need to make hefty investments up front to gain customers and lock them in, long before they'll see a profit from those new customers. They're comfortable with high burn rates—if your growth rates are rising in parallel.
What's a "good" burn rate?
Of course, there's no one answer, which makes burn rate so tricky. How do you gauge if you're spending too much or even too little? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson suggests that $10K per employee per month is a good number to aim for. This per person rate includes salary, rent, the overhead, and any tools or resources. It's just meant to give you a quick calculation to do a health check on your burn rate.
Of course, burn rate expectations—from a VC vantage point—will shift based on your stage. Your burn rate when you're in the MVP-building stage (which, according to Wilson, should be ~$50K), will be different than your post-release growth stage, when you're on a mad dash to gather users (at which Wilson thinks you should keep burn to $100K or less).
Wilson's rule isn't the only one out there. Some say you should aim to "spend less than 10 percent of your last capital raise per month. If you raised $1.5 million, then you should spend less than $150,000 per month." And still others note that if you have less than a year to go before you're at zero cash, you better be in full-blown survival mode, scrambling to raise more money ASAP.
There is no easy answer, so take these "rules" with a grain of salt.
Think about your real needs and what value each hire will bring to your startup. Count on freelancers to bridge the gap until you're absolutely ready to make an offer.
Don't spend more than 10% on anything else—marketing, sales, travel, etc.
Don't sign up for expensive marketing channels if you aren't sure they will perform. Test everything first.
This goes for everything from office space to tech equipment. Leasing not only will give you more favorable terms, but a lot more flexibility.
Boost your productivity and tighten your development cycles throughout the summer months, when you can scale up with summer interns looking to gain experience at a startup.
Leverage free software trials and online tools wherever possible, from free stock photos and editing software to free antivirus programs. Take advantage of these freebies while you can.
The startup garage office is stereotypical because it's true. Cash-strapped startup workers use shared spaces, bedrooms, garages—wherever they can—for workspace.
Many startup leaders find themselves in the uncomfortable position of managing cash flow and budget, perhaps when they were previously in roles where these tasks were someone else's responsibility. It's not always fun, seeing how much longer you can last as a business, especially when you've got a payroll to manage and a team that counts on you. But it's part of being a founder.
Take a breath. Cozy up to your spreadsheets. Know what's going on with your cash. And if you need to, tighten up that budget!


It's been a bad week for sports fans in this country. The Danes got even for Clontarf and the French bought a World Cup from the greedy Celts.
So in the one week we lost the holding of a rugby World Cup and the going to a soccer World Cup. This was the year when Black Friday fell on a Tuesday.
As usual, we made jokes about the soccer exit.
We seem to crack jokes about every sporting calamity in this country. Maybe it's our way of saying there's worse that could happen. My favourite was "never mind, the Guinness is sh*te in Russia".
We did beat Fiji in the rugby on Saturday but what have Fiji ever done to us? What we wouldn't have given to beat Wales and Scotland. You couldn't but like the Fijians, who, to the best of my knowledge, have never invaded or betrayed their fellow Irish islanders. Unlike more I could mention.
There is a Fijian water which has become very popular and competes with our own waters, and it may seem strange for a country with so much water to bring water in.
The Fijians know all about the perfidy of World Rugby, who allow big countries to plunder the playing populations of small countries. This week Samoa went broke. The island nations rear their players for export.
But good luck to Fiji. They never wronged Ireland. And Fiji nearly beat us but for the boot of Ian Keatley who has found some resilience and strength of character in the last year or so.
As for Scotland and Wales, our Celtic brothers, well it's high time we declared war on account of their not voting for us.
The plain people of Wales and Scotland were disgusted by the behaviour of their representatives who, for whatever reason, opted to put politics before friendship.
France, who were awarded the World Cup, have a very bad record at keeping control of the many terrorists who have infiltrated French society. The French bid echoed some of the First World War generals who declared, with some certainty, the conflict would be over by Christmas 1914. The French rugby security section, in their application to hold the World Cup, expressed a wish that terrorism would be over by 2023.
The Scots and the Welsh voted for France.
Ireland went after the South Africans but it was the French who we should have concentrated on.
So being full of bitterness, as the betrayed always are, I propose we pull out of the Celtic whatever it is league, and join up with the English Premiership.
I'm serious. Think of big games every week against the likes of Saracens, Wasps, Bath and Leicester. This is not the first time the Welsh and Scottish unions have let us down. England were the only home nation to show up at Lansdowne Road when the Troubles were at their worst. Wales and Scotland could turn their backs on us at any time.
The people are lovely but the rugby overlords are not to be trusted to carry out the wishes of the supporters.
Italy let us down too. So did Argentina. The Irish priests started off rugby in Argentina. And we sent Conor O'Shea to Italy. Nice thanks.
I suppose you could be fighting with whole world if you put your mind to it. But Ireland were very good to Argentina when rugby was struggling there.
Maybe we should just take our beating but then there was the enemy within who were afraid the Irish people would be happy for a while. We had a very good and sensible bid. There was a lovely spread of games all around the island of Ireland.
There were a few Fianna Fáil politicians who proposed an enquiry into how to the Government contribution of €1.5 million to the bid money was spent. Lads, the cost of the bottled water alone would bring the bill for the enquiry well over the €1.5 million. The facts were that we found out who our friends are - the hard way.
The soccer was a terrible blow too. I was very upset at some of the criticism levelled at Martin O'Neill. He brought us to the Euros last year in France and this time around we got within one game of qualification with a squad of players who gave their all. That's all you can ask.
O'Neill is a decent man, and an honest man, who played the hand he was dealt without ever pulling an ace from the bottom.
I was at the game against Belgium in Bordeaux last year when we suffered a similar catastrophe. The fans stayed until well after the final whistle. There wasn't a hostile word. Quite the opposite in fact with songs of praise and 'Te Deums' to the players for giving us the chance to cheer in France.
But there is hope for Ireland. We always seem to manage to become the best in the world at some sport. For a while it was snooker players, and then the cyclists, the cross-country runners, and so on. Now we have the Skibb gang in the rowing.
The nature of victories in small countries is cyclical. We cannot expect to have the best in the world, or win all the time.
Just as when a team made up of three or four or five brothers, with a couple of first cousins thrown in, can backbone an All-Ireland club win, the same is also true at international level. It's about chance. Christian Eriksen happened to have been born in Denmark on St Valentine's Day 1992. That's the difference between victory and defeat. If Eriksen was born in Dundalk we would have won.
So the good news is never far away. You just have to know where to look, out and about on the waters and the wild. Remember Skibbereen.


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Boisterous ceremony silences the doubters
Stephen Wright, Rio de Janeiro
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Perched at the peak of Mount Corcovado, Christ the Redeemer peered on approvingly from high above the Maracanã Stadium during last night's Olympic Games opening ceremony.
Visible from almost everywhere in Rio, the outstretched arms of the iconic statue welcomed more than 11,000 athletes from 206 countries to the first Olympics to be held in South America.
The fluorescent glow emanating from the symbol of Christianity, fittingly in Brazil's yellow and green colours, seemed to dissipate the gloom that has enveloped the build-up to these Games.
Swarms of virus-carrying mosquitoes, construction delays and filthy water containing "drug resistant" bacteria are among the carnival of challenges to have faced Rio.
Only time will tell whether the savage skewering from the sharpened pens of the world's media was justified or simply pre-competition bashing of Olympic proportions.
One thing is for certain, though: if ever there was a Games in need of a boost in self-esteem, it was this one.
For Rio is a very different city to the one awarded the Olympics seven years ago, with the scaled-back ceremony reflecting the harsh economic realities of the country, costing about half of the $42 million spent by London in 2012.
Fortunately, Rio does not require riches, or an excuse for that matter, to throw a seriously wild party.
If anything, the absence of grandiosity, special effects and technological wizardry felt appropriate considering Rio's renowned "gambiarra" — the ability to keep functioning with makeshift fixes.
That is not to say there was an absence of stardust.
The heavenly Gisele Bündchen saw to that, with the Brazilian Übermodel and wife of NFL star Tom Brady embracing her inner "Girl from Ipanema" in typically elegant fashion in her last, long catwalk.
Much like the Cariocas who inhabit "the Magnificent City", Tyrone Smith is someone who does not appear to need a reason to let his hair down.
Smith will look to "fly" when he competes in the long jump next week, although his wings were slightly clipped by his flag-bearing responsibilities during the Parade of Nations.
Proudly holding the island's colours aloft meant the beaming Smith was forced to rein in his trademark dance moves that turned him into a Twitter sensation at London 2012.
Still, he managed to celebrate his individuality by sporting an extravagant blond-flecked hairdo styled especially for his third, and perhaps, final Olympics.
With his uniform failing to turn up in Rio, Smith also entered into the "do more with less" spirit of the ceremony, cobbling something together in time for the curtain-raiser.
The only Bermudian absentee was Flora Duffy, with the medal hopeful arriving at the Olympics next week ahead of her triathlon competition.
No doubt she joined in at home with the chorus of cheers from the 50,000 spectators as her team-mates marched through the heart of the famous football stadium in their unique red Bermuda shorts.
The boisterous ceremony, superbly put together by City of God director Fernando Ferreira Meirelles, came to a close when Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, a marathon bronze medal-winner in Athens in 2004, lit the Olympic flame.
Maybe the divine intervention critics believed was necessary to turn Rio 2016 into a success will not be required after all.
Even so, if this Olympics is in need of some salvation, last night's quintessential Brazilian party certainly provided a drop of the good stuff.
The nod of approval from Christ the Redeemer was almost tangible.
We have lift-off: fireworks explode during the opening ceremony at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last night (Photograph by Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press/AP)
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L'espèce fait partie de la section Parvibegonia.
Elle a été décrite en 1930 par William Grant Craib (1882-1933).

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Cette espèce est originaire des pays suivants : Chine ; Thaïlande.

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Well, let's rephrase that. Mourinho's men are currently 15th in the league and have only recorded two wins in seven games.
So, the title of this article may be a little deceiving, but at least Mourinho is in the clear in terms of the FA.
He was facing the possibility of a five match ban for using derogatory language toward Eva Carniero during the Swansea City draw that kicked off the Blues abysmal 2015 campaign.
The altercation that occurred between the now ex-head physio and club manager culminated in Carniero deciding to part ways with the Chelsea organization.
The investigation of abusive language was brought to the FA by members of the public who witnessed Mourinho's tirade after Carniero ran onto the pitch to treat Eden Hazard, leaving Chelsea down to nine men with approximately ten minutes to play in a tied match.
"Calm & Collected" are noticeably absent from Jose's resume.
"After receiving the report from the expert, the FA is satisfied that the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA Rules.
"Furthermore, both the words used, as translated and analysed by the independent expert, and the video evidence, do not support the conclusion that the words were directed at any person in particular.
It is interesting that whether the words have "direction" at a particular person holds weight in the eyes of the FA. This seems to almost suggest that Mourinho could stand on the sideline screaming Portuguese obscenities until he is blue in the face without repercussions as long as those obscenities are not aimed at anyone in particular.
The long climb for him and his club back to the top of the table.