For Alabama Bird Lovers! 140 species (only Alabama birds!) by Stan Tekiela. Easy-to-use color guide. See a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section! Fact-filled, containing the information you want to know. Contains range maps showing where in Alabama you'll find the birds in summer, winter, all year or during migration. Full-page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions. Stan's notes include naturalist information and interesting gee-whiz facts. 370 pages, 4-3/8" x 6", softcover.
For Arizona Bird Lovers! 140 species (only Arizona birds!) by Stan Tekiela. Easy-to-use color guide. See a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section! Fact-filled, containing the information you want to know. Contains range maps showing where in Arizona you'll find the birds in summer, winter, all year or during migration. Full-page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions. Stan's notes include naturalist information and interesting gee-whiz facts. 364 pages, 4-3/8" x 6", softcover.
For Arkansas Bird Lovers! 124 species (only Arkansas birds!) by Stan Tekiela. Easy-to-use color guide. See a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section! Fact-filled, containing the information you want to know. Contains range maps showing where in Texas you'll find the birds in summer, winter, all year or during migration. Full-page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions. Stan's notes include naturalist information and interesting gee-whiz facts. 328 pages, 4-3/8" x 6", softcover.
For California Bird Lovers! 170 species (only California birds!) by Stan Tekiela. Easy-to-use color guide. See a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section! Fact-filled, containing the information you want to know. Contains range maps showing where in California you'll find the birds in summer, winter, all year or during migration. Full-page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions. Stan's notes include naturalist information and interesting gee-whiz facts. 432 pages, 4-3/8" x 6", softcover.
For Colorado Bird Lovers! 130 species (only Colorado birds!) by Stan Tekiela. Easy-to-use color guide. See a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section! Fact-filled, containing the information you want to know. Contains range maps showing where in Colorado you'll find the birds in summer, winter, all year or during migration. Full-page photos with corresponding full-page descriptions. Stan's notes include naturalist information and interesting gee-whiz facts. 315 pages, 4-3/8" x 6", softcover.
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import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.jeeventstore.ChangeSet;

/**
 * A mocked ChangeSet used in unit tests.
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public class TestChangeSet implements ChangeSet {

    private String bucketId;
    private String id;

    public TestChangeSet(String bucketId, String id) {
        this.bucketId = bucketId;
        this.id = id;
    }

    @Override
    public String bucketId() {
        return this.bucketId;
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    public String streamId() {
        return this.id;
    }

    @Override
    public long streamVersion() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public String changeSetId() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
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Production Requirements
Music Composed & Arranged by Bob Christianson
Lyrics & Book Adaptation by Alisa Hauser
From a novella by Charles Dickens
(c)2010 Christianson/Hauser
WTTW Performance
(C)2013 Scrooge & Friends LLC.
ACT ONE opens with an overture and narration (OVERTURE/MARLEY WAS DEAD) and moves quickly to the choir describing the miserly Scrooge. (SCROOGE'S EVIL EYE). We first meet Scrooge at his counting house where he is dismissing his nephew Fred's invitation to dinner (YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CHRISTMAS). Then, home alone on Christmas eve, Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. (MARLEY'S FACE) Hoping that Scrooge will redeem himself, Marley warns him that he will be visited by three spirits. (I WEAR THESE CHAINS)
As the bells toll one Scrooge is awakened by his first visitor, the Ghost of Christmas Past. (RISE AND WALK WITH ME) Their journey begins at Scrooge's boarding school (YOUNG SCROOGE AT SCHOOL) where he has been left alone for the Christmas holidays. (BETTER OFF ALONE) Next the spirit takes Scrooge to the office of his former employer (OLD FEZZIWIG) where Scrooge becomes caught up in the celebration of Fezziwig's Ball. (DANCE YOUR CHRISTMAS) Next, the ghost transports Scrooge to the moment when he broke off his engagement to his first love, Belle. (I WON'T KEEP YOU)
Back in his bed Scrooge wakes up to find his second visitor, The Ghost of Christmas Present. (FEAST YOUR EYES) They begin their journey with a walk through the streets on Christmas day. (PROMISE OF THE DAY) Next, they arrive at the humble home of Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit, as he prepares for his family's Christmas dinner. (THERE NEVER WAS SUCH A CHRISTMAS) Leaving the Cratchit house with Tiny Tim's future in question, the Ghost now shows Scrooge two frightful children, Ignorance and Want, and warns him about the last ghost. (BEWARE)
ACT TWO opens (ENTR'ACTE) with the introduction of The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come, played by a solo cello. Scrooge follows the spirit through town hearing callous conversations along the way about a man who died. (DEATH DUET PART1) Next they return to the Cratchit house (THE CRATCHIT FAMILY) where the family is grieving Tiny Tim's death (NO TROUBLE). Now at the end of their journey the Ghost leads a frightened Scrooge to his own gravestone. (DEATH DUET PART 2)
Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning to find that he is not dead and has not missed Christmas at all! (CHRISTMAS MORNING MONTAGE) Giddy and delighted he is completely transformed and relishes every moment of Christmas day. The next morning (BACK AT THE COUNTING HOUSE) Scrooge surprises Cratchit with an offer to raise his salary and assist his struggling family. Cratchit is grateful and overwhelmed by Scrooge's transformation. (GOD BLESS US EVERYONE)
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Indian Institute Of Technology Hyderabad And Talentsprint To Equip Young Talent In Artificial Intelligence
Certification in Artificial Intelligence with additional topics in IoT, Blockchain and Quantum Computing will be provided. On-campus Summer Residential Program starting from May 27, 2019.
06 March, 2019 by BW Online Bureau
IIT Hyderabad Incubated Startup PURE EV Launches Long Range High Performance Electric Two-Wheelers
IIT Hyderabad-Incubated Startup PURE EV Raises VC Funding At USD 35 Million Valuation
Budget 2019: Preparing Youth For New-Age Skills
IIT Hyderabad To Encourage Girl Students To Take Up A Career In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics
The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad has announced a Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies. Conceived as a first-of-a-kind, five-week residential program in AI and emerging tech for recent graduates and senior college students, it will be offered in partnership with TalentSprint starting May 27, 2019.
IIT Hyderabad (IITH) ranks 9th on the list of India's elite engineering institutions in 2018, as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). It has ranked in the top ten list consistently for the last three years. IITH is also the first Indian institution to introduce a B.Tech program in AI, which it announced last month. It has been running an M.Tech in AI and ML since 2017. The institution is considered a leader in state-of-art R&D and academic innovations.
It is believed that over 95% of India's engineering graduates have minimal access to cutting-edge technology expertise. At the same time, it is estimated that 75% of industry activity in the coming decade will require substantial AI capabilities. This program will offer participants a rare option to learn about Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing from top-rated IITH professors, live on a premier academic campus for five weeks, and obtain a high-value certificate upon completion.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. U.B. Desai, Director of IITH, said, "Our new Centre for AI will impact industry and society in manifold ways. While other executive programs focus on upskilling senior professionals, we will develop smart young talent with strong AI and emerging tech capabilities to fuel the future of India's tech sector. This summer program with TalentSprint is a significant initiative and will leverage the expertise of many acclaimed professors at IIT Hyderabad."
Dr. Santanu Paul, Co-Founder and CEO of TalentSprint, said, "In the next decade, AI will power a new wave of careers and create millions of high-value jobs worldwide. We are delighted to partner with IIT Hyderabad on this novel program aimed at preparing young talent. On offer is the rich expertise of IIT Hyderabad professors combined with TalentSprint's digital platform and industry connect. The residential facility will enable participants to experience life on a premier IIT campus, while the final certificate will prepare them for exciting careers in the future."
The five-week program is priced at Rs. 2,65,000 + applicable taxes and starts on May 27, 2019. Since seats and residential facilities are very limited, eligible candidates should apply for early selection at: https://iithyderabad.talentsprint.com/aiet or http://ai.iith.ac.in/profprog/
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Óscar Bernabé Vásquez Alva (Trujillo, 7 de noviembre de 1965) es un agrónomo y político peruano. Fue alcalde del distrito de Campoverde entre 1999 y 2002.

Hijo de Bernabé Vásquez Díaz e Irma Isabel Alva Lezcano. Cursó sus estudios primarios y secundarios en su ciudad natal. Entre 1984 y 1992 cursó estudios superiores de agronomía en la Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva en Tingo María.

Su primera participación política se dio en las elecciones municipales de 1998 en las que fue elegido alcalde del distrito de Campoverde por el Movimiento Independiente Pucallpa 2000. En las elecciones generales del 2001 tentó su elección como congresista por Ucayali por el Partido Renacimiento Andino sin éxito. Luego, en las elecciones municipales del 2006 y del 2010 tentó sin éxito su reelección como alcalde distrital de Campoverde por el movimiento fujimorista Sí Cumple y por el movimiento independiente Esfuerzo Unidos. Participó en las elecciones regionales del 2014 como candidato a presidente del Gobierno Regional de Ucayali por Fuerza Popular sin obtener la elección.

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Alcaldes de Campoverde
Trujillanos (Perú)
Alumnado de la Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva
Miembros de Fuerza Popular

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Round Top Festival Institute
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city Round Top
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period Sun 05 June 2022 - Sun 17 July 2022
closing date Mon 21 February 2022
Created in 1971 by concert pianist James Dick, its Founder and Artistic Director, Round Top Festival Institute offers six weeks (no absence is permitted) of intensive training for young talented musicians (born before December 31, 2004) seeking a transition from conservatories and universities to a future professional career. Symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, chamber music and solo repertoire are included in this concentrated 6-week program.
Round Top Festival Institute owns its campus (over 200 acres), its venues (a 1,000-seat concert hall and a 160-seat chapel), its practice rooms, its accommodations, its food service and other amenities (swimming pool, jogging trails…) The whole project has been specifically envisioned and realized by renowned concert pianist James Dick, Founder and Artistic Director, to provide the best environment to implement the program.
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Sorority Noise Release New Single 'Alone'
Sorority Noise have just released Alone, a brand new two song single that features the songs Week 51 and Fermeta, that is now available via Triple Crown Records, the single can be purchased on vinyl, on clear and clear with blue spatter variants, here and digitally here. Alone is also available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and via all other digital platforms. Alone is the follow up to Sorority Noise's critically acclaimed full length, You're Not As _____ As You Think, that was released earlier this year on Triple Crown Records.
Sorority Noise's tour dates can be viewed below
Sorority Noise Tour Dates
10/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
10/18 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/19 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
10/20 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
10/21 – Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room
10/22 – Boston, MA @ Royale
10/24 – Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
10/26 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
10/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
10/28 – Asbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents
10/29 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage
10/31 – Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
11/01 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
11/02 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
11/03 – Margate, FL @ O'Malley's
11/04 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
11/05 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/06 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement – East
11/08 – Houston, TX @ Walter's
11/09 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
11/10 – McDade, TX @ Sound On Sound Fest
11/12 – Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
11/13 – San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
11/14 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
11/17 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
11/18 – Portland, OR @ Analog Theater
11/19 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
11/22 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
11/24 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
11/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
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A dark scourge stalks the seas, wrought in iron and malice, decked in hatred and contempt for all that is good in this world. An ominous vessel, the Black Ship is perfect for any ambitious dark elf, chaos tyrant or necromancer to bring ruin upon any world.
The Black Ship is ship suited for fantasy RPG, pirate, or skirmish tabletop games. Included in the .ZIP file are: separate deck layouts, interior fittings such as barrels and boxes, a removable 'wake' that simulates ship movement, cannons, ballista, and rigging clips. The separate decks can be used to simulate movement within the ship.
To rig the black ship, check out the Rigging Guide. You will need dowel and black elastic string.
3 November 18 – 1.1 The Wheel has now been added.
I will post a full tutorial in the new year. The ship was primed in black and drybrushed in dungeon grey. The Metallics were layered with GW Typhus Corruption, drybrushed with GW Ryza rust, washed in Army Painter Sepia Wash and highlighted with Army Painter Gun Metal. The roof tiles were painted in Army Painter Alien Purple, washed in Army Painter Purple Tone and black, and highlighted with Army Painter Oozing Purple.


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Petr Mrazek wants his revenge game and likely earned it
Dave Isaac
PHILADELPHIA — Petr Mrazek's eyes lit up and he showed a wide smile each time he was asked about his old team.
He wants the revenge game against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.
What he did Sunday night, getting a win that dramatically changed the Flyers' playoff outlook, probably earned him the opportunity.
"It's gonna be nice to be back but when the game starts, it doesn't matter who is on the other side," Mrazek said. "We are going there to get some good result and we have to go from there. It's gonna be nice to be back in the town where I spent my first five or six NHL years."
On Feb. 19 the Flyers traded for Mrazek. Detroit retained half of his salary and in return the Flyers gave a draft pick in 2018 and an additional pick in 2019 if Mrazek re-signs in Philly.
The initial pick was a fourth-rounder that becomes a third-rounder if Mrazek wins five regular-season games and the Flyers make the playoffs. The first condition was met with Sunday's 6-3 win over Washington. It could become as high as a second if the Flyers make the Eastern Conference finals and Mrazek has six playoff wins.
Detroit, in rebuild mode, is hungry for draft picks and the conditions of the trade was their a showing of hope in Mrazek, who disappointed over the last couple years for the Red Wings. Upon his leaving town, it was clear that rumors of poor work ethic and attitude rubbed the organization the wrong way.
"Sometimes there's things that I think about certain situations I can't tell you people," GM Ken Holland told reporters in Detroit. "I don't think it's fair to all the people involved."
"I feel like since I got here, in practice I changed a couple things and I feel like I'm getting better in those situations," Mrazek said. "I like that we practice a lot and I'm getting confidence from the practice."
Work ethic hasn't been a problem since Mrazek joined the Flyers, but results have.
He was very sharp in his first three games, winning all of them and had a .947 save percentage. His next seven games he was 1-5-1 with a .863 save percentage. In a huge game Sunday, Mrazek had a comeback performance with 25 saves against the Capitals.
"I thought he was excellent," coach Dave Hakstol said. "When you look at a back-to-back like this there's gonna be some breakdowns and your goaltender has to be front and center. I thought Petr was (Sunday)."
Washington is in first place in the Metropolitan Division and the Flyers beating the Caps was a huge confidence boost, not just in adding two points in the standings but also the quality of opponent. The Red Wings would be the opposite end of that spectrum, the only team in the NHL with zero wins in their last 10 games.
For Mrazek to go back to Detroit, motivation will likely be sky high.
"When you get traded away or that team doesn't want you (any)more, obviously you have something to prove personally but I think it will be pretty exciting for Petr to be back in Detroit," Shayne Gostisbehere said. "It should be fun."
It would have been a tall task if Mrazek didn't have a good game Sunday.
Alex Lyon has played very well, particularly in relief. Twice in the three times he's been tapped mid-game for mop-up duty he hasn't allowed a goal. That was the case the last time Mrazek got a start and allowed four goals on 10 shots to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
"After the game against Columbus when you don't finish the game you try to go into the next game with big confidence and build with that," Mrazek said. "I tried from the beginning of the game to focus on the puck and get as many pucks as I could. That was a big first period for me and our team."
Loose Pucks
Michael Raffl left Sunday's game in the second period after playing 6 minutes, 40 seconds. Monday the Flyers announced Raffl will miss the next two weeks with what they deemed an "upper-body injury." … GM Ron Hextall is in Boca Raton, Florida for the league's general manager meetings. Reported to be on the agenda are coach's challenges, potential expansion to Seattle and playoff formats if and when expansion happens. … Anthony Stolarz played two games in Reading of the ECHL on a conditioning stint over the past week. The goalie allowed five goals on 35 shots in a 5-4 overtime loss on Wednesday and sharpened up allowing only one goal on 33 shots in a 5-1 win Saturday. He could soon return to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, who are in first place in their division in the AHL.
Dave Isaac; @davegisaac; 856-486-2479; disaac@gannett.com
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When: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday
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Research Article| June 01 2020
The Cost of Independence: Evidence from Companies' Decisions to Dismiss Audit Firms as Tax-Service Providers
Kirsten A. Cook;
Kirsten A. Cook
Kevin Kim;
Kevin Kim
The University of Memphis
Thomas C. Omer
We thank James Chyz, Diana Falsetta, Bill Felix, Ronen Gal-Or, Brian Hogan, Bill Waller, members of the audit readings group at The University of Arizona, and workshop participants at the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting, Florida Atlantic University, Miami University of Ohio, Portland State University, and Texas Tech University for valuable comments. We also thank the PricewaterhouseCoopers INQuires Program for funding this project.
Editor's note: Accepted by Brian W. Mayhew, under the Senior Editorship of Teri Lombardi Yohn.
Received: January 01 2018
Accepted: November 01 2019
Accounting Horizons (2020) 34 (2): 83–107.
https://doi.org/10.2308/horizons-18-009
Kirsten A. Cook, Kevin Kim, Thomas C. Omer; The Cost of Independence: Evidence from Companies' Decisions to Dismiss Audit Firms as Tax-Service Providers. Accounting Horizons 1 June 2020; 34 (2): 83–107. https://doi.org/10.2308/horizons-18-009
This study examines whether companies' decisions to dismiss or substantially reduce reliance on their audit firms as tax-service providers in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act affect tax avoidance. We hypothesize that decoupling audit and tax-service provision and subsequently obtaining tax services from a new provider can result in decreased tax avoidance because the new provider lacks familiarity with a client's existing tax planning or does not have the expertise to generate new tax-avoidance opportunities. Consistent with our hypothesis, our results reveal that sample companies' book (cash) effective tax rates increased by economically significant 1.36 (1.63) percentage points in the year after terminating or substantially decreasing purchases of tax services from their audit firms, and discretionary permanent book-tax differences declined significantly. We find that decreases in tax avoidance were larger for companies whose outgoing tax-service providers were tax-specific industry experts.
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On Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath
Harper & Row, 296 pp., $6.95
Crossing the Water (to be published September 8)
Harper & Row, 96 pp., $5.95
In Sylvia Plath's work and in her life the elements of pathology are so deeply rooted and so little resisted that one is disinclined to hope for general principles, sure origins, applications, or lessons. Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible. Her work is brutal, like the smash of a fist; and sometimes it is also mean in its feeling. Literary comparisons are possible, echoes vibrate occasionally, but to whom can she be compared in spirit, in content, in temperament?
Certain frames for her destructiveness have been suggested by critics. Perhaps being born a woman is part of the exceptional rasp of her nature, a woman whose stack of duties was laid over the ground of genius, ambition, and grave mental instability. Or is it the 1950s, when she was going to college, growing up—is there something of that here? Perhaps; but I feel in her a special lack of national and local roots, feel it particularly in her poetry, and this I would trace to her foreign ancestors on both sides. They were given and she accepted them as a burden not as a gift; but there they were, somehow cutting her off from what they weren't. Her father died when she was eight years old and this was serious, central. Yet this most interesting part of her history is so scorched by resentment and bitterness that it is only the special high burn of the bitterness that allows us to imagine it as a cutoff love.
For all the drama of her biography, there is a peculiar remoteness about Sylvia Plath. A destiny of such violent self-definition does not always bring the real person nearer; it tends, rather, to invite iconography, to freeze our assumptions and responses. She is spoken of as a "legend" or a "myth"—but what does that mean? Sylvia Plath was a luminous talent, self-destroyed at the age of thirty, likely to remain, it seems, one of the most interesting poets in American literature. As an event she stands with Hart Crane, Scott Fitzgerald, and Poe rather than with Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, or Elizabeth Bishop.
The outlines of her nature are odd, especially in her defiant and extensive capabilities, her sense of mastery, the craft and preparation she almost humbly and certainly industriously acquired as the foundation for an overwhelming ambition. She was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Her mother's parents were Austrian; her father was a German, born in Poland. He was a professor of biology, a specialist, among other interests, in bee-raising. (The ambiguous danger and sweetness of the beehive—totemic, emblematic for the daughter.) Her father died and the family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, to live with their grandparents. The mother became a teacher and the daughter went to public schools and later to Smith College. Sylvia Plath was a thorough success as a student and apparently was driven to try to master everything life offered—study, cooking, horseback riding, writing, being a mother, housekeeping. There seemed…
—— August 12, 1971 ——
Roger Sale
Beyond War Crimes
Vladimir Dedijer
Manolis Anagnostakis
Our Own Herrenvolk
C. Vann Woodward
North Vietnam and China: Reflections on a Visit
Martin Bernal


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With their job taking them to the remotest parts of the state, the postmen in Meghalaya will be assigned a new task -- report on human trafficking cases.
An NGO, Impulse, has entered into an understanding with the Indian Postal Services to reach out to remotest villages in the Northeast for disseminating information on human trafficking.
"People in remote villages of the region do not have access to any sort of information, be it on the very notion of human trafficking or available ways and measures for their redressal."
"They are hesitant to go to the police station and report cases of missing children from their localities or villages," the team leader of Impulse, Hasina Kharbhih, said.
The project includes setting up of common service centres in post offices as coordinating locations in the region.
"The postman will distribute pamphlets on awareness. Also upon receiving any information on missing children or person, he will intimate, transmit and guide the information to the coordinator placed at the CSCs."
"The coordinator will subsequently work out a rescue strategy with the law-enforcement agencies and local NGOs," Kharbhih said.
Objective of the project is to create a sustainable harmonising environment for the communities to combat trafficking along with NGOs and law-enforcement agencies by utilising the reach of the Indian Postal Services, Kharbhih said.
About 44,000 children go missing in India annually and only 22 pc of them are traced, most of them victims of human trafficking.
Rescue operations conducted by NGOs show that majority of the victims belong to remote villages like those in some parts of Northeast where the illiterate masses do not have any access to information.


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House Hains is an historic residence in the Yeoville section of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Constructed in 1903, the house was designed for Henry Hains by architect James Alfred Cope-Christie.  Hains was an editor and accountant who immigrated in 1888.

The site occupied two stands in what was then an up-market middle class suburb. In 1933, the third owner, Mrs Socher, tore down the outbuildings, stables and garden and built a second house.

In 1942, Hains House itself was sub-divided into two units.

Design
An attractive single storey red brick dwelling, House Hains has elevations articulated by a varied roofscape, painted woodwork, and verandahs with ornamental timber detailing.

The property has three bedrooms and two entertaining rooms with kitchen, bathroom and servants room to the rear. A generous verandah off the dining room provides an outdoor entertainment space. It is a spacious house, having been originally designed to sit within two stands.

Recent history
Over the years the house was left in neglect however it was recently bought and revived by the present owner.

The house has now been restored as a single dwelling.

Heritage Status
House Hains is recognised as a national heritage monument for the following reasons:
 Association with J.A. Cope-Christie, a architect of early 20th century Johannesburg
 It is one of only three surviving houses designed by Cope-Christie, all of which are protected heritage monuments
 It retains most of its original design features, which are identifiable with Cope-Christie's style
 It is an example of a Rand Pioneer house

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Q: Does being a Blood Mage make everyone hate you? Blood Mages are almost universally hated in Dragon Age Origins.
Does choosing that specialization affect the story line?  Will people hate me if I pick it?

A: No, they won't know, and or won't care. Feel free to go Blood Mage and wreak havoc.

A: It was originally planned for Wynne to call you out on being a Blood Mage while in the presence of Knight Commander Greagoir and First Enchanter Irving at the end of the Broken Circle quest. Dialogue was recorded, but was cut from the game. It can be seen in this fan-made reconstruction:

Wynne: Before we go any further, I would like to bring something up if I may. [turns to Warden] I must thank you for what you have done, but I have watched you and seen some things that cause me concern. The spells you use are unfamiliar and not taught by the Circle. They are powerful, and disturbing. Where did you learn to do this magic?
Warden: (Persuade) They were not my spells. You are mistaken.
Wynne: Oh, please. Credit me at least with the ability to tell different casters apart. I know what I saw.
Warden: (Persuade) The Grey Wardens taught me.
Wynne: But there is only ever one mage Warden at a time, and you are that mage. Who taught you?
Greagoir: I can believe that the Grey Wardens teach their recruits spells that would be…frowned upon by the Circle. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Irving: The Wardens have many books reserved for themselves alone. They contain the wisdom of all Grey Wardens past and present, mages included.
Warden: Yes. That's right.
Greagoir: The Grey Wardens' methods may be questionable, but I must believe their intentions are, ultimately, good.
Wynne: I hate to say this, but some of the things you were doing were hardly distinguishable from what those blood mages were doing.
Greagoir: This is a serious accusation, Wynne.
Warden: Everything I've done has made me better at battling evil.
Greagoir: Tell us now…are you a blood mage?
Warden: Yes, I am.
Greagoir: You know what happened to Jowan and you saw what they did to the tower.
Irving: It pains me to see you've fallen so far. You were strong enough without blood magic…
Warden: Why do you let the Chantry dictate the extent of your power?
Irving: It's not about power, but respect for life—your own, and others. Do what you wish, Greagoir.

Because you did spare the tower, Greagoir then gives you the option to peacefully surrender and go on trial with the Chantry, with him saying that he will plead for the grand cleric to spare your life. The Warden can choose to refuse, which leads to Greagoir saying that you must be eliminated.
I imagine that this conversation was cut for two reasons. First, it creates a new outcome in which both the Mages and the Templars turn on you, meaning you don't have either faction as an ally. Second, when you say that they are Grey Warden spells, Wynne notes that "there is only ever one mage Warden at a time" so you had nobody to teach you (with Irving reasoning that you learned from Grey Warden books). It seems that the developers decided they didn't want to limit themselves in this way, so they cut the reference to it.
Unfortunately, this means that in the final version of the game your allies, Wynne included, don't seem to care that you're using Blood Magic. However, you can accept this from a roleplaying perspective by imagining that you had an off-screen conversation and managed to convince your companions that they were Grey Warden techniques. If you go so far as to actually make Wynne a Blood Mage, then you can reason that she doesn't fully recognize blood magic (since the only time she has seen it has been briefly during combat) and that she wants to believe the lie that you really are teaching her secret Grey Warden techniques.

A: I hear that in the beta, if you were a blood mage, Wynne would refuse to group with you. That probably got changed for obvious reasons, so now you can be a blood mage and use your blood spells in front of anyone, even the Circle of Magi.

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As a cartoonist, I'm always on the lookout for a pen that will give smooth, clear lines, won't bleed through the paper, and is inexpensive. After all, I'm still a poor boy, and can't afford expensive equipment. Like I've mentioned in the past, over the 30-some years I've been drawing cartoons, I've tried just about every drawing instrument imaginable. But I've recently rediscovered the amazing Flair Pen!
The Flair is a felt-tip marker-like pen made by Papermate. Most of you have probably heard about this pen, because it's been around for, like, EVER. It's everything I love in a cartooning pen, because its inexpensive—it can be found in any grocery or drug store for almost nothing—it gives a strong, uniform dark line, and best of all, IT DOESN'T BLEED!
A pen bleeding through the paper is VERY annoying. The ink gets everywhere; since we're generally drawing with waterproof ink, it also forever STAINS anything it touches! I still have stains on my drawing table that are more than 20 years old, from me learning this lesson the hard way. So many finished or almost-finished cartoons have been ruined through ink stains, bleeding from one page to another. Of course, nowadays, you can just scan your cartoon into Photoshop or something and erase any errors, but we didn't have that trick in the old days! Computer or no computer, it's still easier and takes less time if your pen does what you want it to do the first time!
Until recently, I haven't used Flair pens for a very long time. I'd actually been avoiding them on purpose. Why? Well, for several reasons. First and foremost, they're cheap. I have a habit of automatically considering "cheap" to also mean "crappy". For many years I've been using the same two or three different types of pens for my cartooning, and was very happy with them, although each of them bleeds through paper, depending upon the type of paper used. Also, in the book I used as my cartooning bible since I was little, there is an entire section devoted to the reasons why the author feels it is a horrible idea to use "magic markers" for final inking. ("They smear," he says) And, in the book, the "magic marker" looks a lot like a Flair pen!
Granted, some magic markers do smear, especially as you're erasing your pencil lines, which is one major reason they have long been discouraged as a pen for cartooning. However, the Flair pen is different.
Flair pens may look like magic markers, but they don't smear, even when you drag an eraser across them. They dry quickly, and don't bleed through paper…not even through typing paper. I've even used the Flair for filling in large black areas in a drawing, and even that doesn't bleed through. The only time I've gotten a Flair pen to bleed through typing paper is when I've left the point sitting on the paper, but didn't move it. If you leave the point sitting in one place long enough, it's eventually going to bleed a bit. But it never does for normal drawing and inking.
So, the Flair pen is my new favorite pen for cartooning. You can get them anywhere, and you can use them anywhere. They work on a variety of different surfaces, without bleeding through or smearing (the only exception to this might be drawing surfaces that are extremely glossy or cold-pressed. I haven't used Flair on cold-pressed Bristol, for example, so I can't say whether or not it will smear. I also haven't tried it on tracing paper).
Go to your local grocery store or corner drug store, and pick up a few Flair pens! You'll be pleased at the great-looking lines, and how easy the pen is to use. I guarantee you won't be sorry!
This is a new section I'm going to try to include in every future issue of The Inkblot. Each issue I'll have a new tip or trick for you, gathered from my long and incredibly awesome cartooning career.
The tip for this issue is about making straight lines and borders. If you're drawing a comic strip, comic book page, or panel cartoon, straight lines are very important. Straight lines make the entire cartoon look professional, and don't detract or distract from the artwork they contain. Straight lines also allow you to keep the lettering for your cartoon straight.
As important as they are, I've always had problems making straight lines. I've spent many long hours with my ruler, t-square, triangles, and other guides, trying my best to make straight lines for my cartoon borders. For some reason, no matter how hard I try, my lines are just a little bit off. I'll think I have a straight line, but when I complete the cartoon's border, I'll step back, and notice that my border looks frustratingly more like a trapezoid than a square!
So nowadays, when I have to make a border or a straight line, I use my computer! I scan the cartoon into my computer, and use either Photoshop or the Paint program that comes with Windows (MAC users have a similar program, I believe, but I'm not sure what it's called since I don't have a MAC handy). The computer is beautiful because it makes perfect lines and borders every time. You can instantly slap a border on, adjust its thickness, size, and color. Your lines are always straight, and your borders are always perfectly square and in proper proportion.
So, if you have a computer, use it for your straight lines and borders! It'll save you a ton of headache.
If you don't have a computer, then get with the times, man! This is the 21st Century, for crying out loud! Get a cheap one from a thrift store if you have to, but get one! If not, you'll be doing it the old fashioned way. This is fine, if you are one of those lucky ducks that have a knack for making straight lines without thinking about it. (If you are, don't tell me; I'll be jealous!) For the rest of us, though, the computer is the only way to go!
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Guide To Wood Chisels for Woodworking
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Chisels are hand tools for cutting, paring and scraping. Simple and unassuming, you can't do without at least one in the wood shop or on a job site.
These days, carpenters and cabinetmakers often use power tools for the joinery, shaping, and cutting tasks they used to do with chisels. But that doesn't mean chisels have become obsolete! Far from it, in fact. Woodworkers typically maintain a whole collection of wood chisels and use them often. Even jack-of-all-trade DIYers keep at least one chisel in their toolbox, and often a whole set.
I'm speaking from experience. I've used my yellow-handled wood chisel — which I call Old Yeller — for tasks as diverse as separating plastic pipes, wedging floorboards together and cutting mortises for door hinges. Not all of these jobs are ones for which the tool was intended — some woodworkers might consider them chisel maltreatment — but it has often been the case that no other tool could do the job better.
Of course, Old Yeller wouldn't be of much use in a cabinet shop unless a fair amount of effort went into re-sharpening it, but that can be done. In fact, that's one of the best qualities of chisels; you can make one last practically forever.
What Is a Chisel?
What Does a Chisel Look Like?
What Is a Chisel Used For?
Types of Chisels
How To Use a Wood Chisel
Where To Buy Woodcarving Chisels
A wood chisel (not to be confused with a cold chisel used by a stone mason) is a tool woodworkers use to shape and cut wood. It has two parts: a long, rectangular blade that terminates with a sharp bevel, and a wood or plastic handle. The beveled end may be flat or angled.
You can use a chisel in one of two ways. The most common way is to position the beveled end on a piece of wood and strike the handle with a wood mallet to force the bevel into the wood. You can also use a chisel without a mallet by holding it at a low angle and pushing it to remove thin layers from the surface.
Chisels are typically between six and 12 inches long, and the blade and handle are roughly equal in length. The blade may be attached to the handle in one of two ways. On a socket chisel, the end of the blade opposite the bevel is shaped into a socket into which the handle is inserted. On a tang chisel, the end of the blade is formed into a pointed tang that fits into a notch in the handle. Socket chisels tend to be more durable, because the tang can split the handle if you apply too much force. Fortunately, handles are replaceable.
Socket and tang chisels differ in appearance. The socket extending from the blade forms a bolster (a metal sleeve, like the ferrule on a paintbrush) around the top of the handle of a socket chisel. A tang chisel doesn't have a bolster because the tang fits into the handle, but the top of the handle may be wrapped tightly with wire to prevent the tang from slipping out.
A utility chisel like Old Yeller may be subjected to uses for which it isn't intended, but the chisels in a woodworkers shop have specific purposes and are normally used only for those purposes. Some examples are:
Shaving or paring
Woodcarvers use chisels to gradually whittle away layers of wood to shape it. Woodcarving chisels are generally small and very sharp, and they come in a variety of widths. Some are angled on the beveled end to make them resemble knives.
Woodworkers also pare wood to reduce its thickness for a variety of purposes. Perhaps the wood needs to fit into a small opening, or perhaps the opening itself needs to be deeper. Paring is something you can do with a mallet or without.
Chopping and splitting
Driving a chisel straight down into a piece of wood with a mallet is one way to cut it. You chop wood when you pound the chisel across the wood grain, and you split it when the chisel is parallel to the grain.
Woodworkers often use these techniques — in combination with paring — to make notches and recesses known as mortises for installing hinges and other hardware. The techniques can also be used in combination to make rabbets (grooves on the ends and edges of wood) and dados (grooves in the middle). Another purpose for which woodworkers use these techniques is to make dovetail and mortise-and-tenon joints.
You can draw a chisel across the surface of wood to scrape off the top layer. This is a good way to remove a layer of old finish, a glue deposit or a surface stain.
Because they've been using them for centuries, woodworkers have developed a huge variety of chisels, but they fit into three broad categories:
Bench chisels
So-called because they are the type you're most likely to find on a woodworker's bench, bench chisels have flat, beveled ends that vary in width from 1/4 to 1-1/2 inches. The sides of the blade may be straight (this is known as a registered chisel) or beveled.
Featuring a steeply beveled end that may or may not be pointed, a mortise chisel is designed to be pounded directly into wood and tilted to dig the wood out. It has a thicker, more robust blade than a bench chisel, so it can better absorb the force of the mallet and dig efficiently without bending.
Paring chisels look like bench chisels, but they are thinner, more delicate and longer, which provides the user more leverage. The bevel is ground at a low angle (around 20 degrees) to make it easier to shave without digging into the wood too deeply.
The most important thing to remember is to keep your woodworking chisel sharp, which you can do with a grinding stone. If it's sharp, a chisel will pare thinner layers, dig deeper and leave cleaner edges when you drive it with a mallet. The difference between digging and paring is largely a matter of angle. Hold the chisel at an angle steeper than about 30 degrees, and it will dig. Hold it at a shallower angle, and it will pare.
Woodworking chisels are available almost everywhere, including big box stores like Lowe's and online sources like Amazon, Rockler and Grainger. The best quality chisels are often used, however, because vintage chisels were made with better quality steel. You can search for these on Ebay, Craigslist or local garage sales.
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Why the Paignton Pudding is more than just a big Spotted Dick
A seaside story of suet, sunshine and lashings of cider
Guy HendersonChief Reporter
Paignton pudding festivities in the early 1950s.
Sue Perkins made Bake Off audiences titter when she described it as 'a big spotted dick', and in 1859 a cider-fuelled riot broke out when it was revealed to the public. The Paignton Pudding, ladies and gentlemen, is no laughing matter.
Elsewhere on this website you will see an article looking at some of the strange nicknames given to people from different parts of our county, and there you will discover that you are at liberty to call any born-and-bred Paigntonian a 'pudden eater'.
THE 1986 PAIGNTON PUDDING PROCESSION
As a pudden eater myself, I have had the honour of carrying a ceremonial pudding through the streets of my home town. My mate Big Al and I came perilously close to dropping it all over Torbay Road as we did so.
But how did it all begin, why did people riot for it, and is it just a big Spotted Dick?
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The Paignton Pudding was first baked to celebrate the granting of the town's market charter by Edward I in 1295, which formed the basis of Paignton's prosperity. For centuries the town showed its gratitude by sending a pudding to the monarch every 21 years.
Soon, they were making it for the whole town.
In 1819 the ceremonial pud weighed 900lb but, despite being boiled non-stop in a brewer's furnace for four days, it was not a success. The outside of the pudding had been reduced to a paste while the inside was still raw, leaving expectant townsfolk with rumbling tums.
Arrival of the Paignton Pudding in 2009. Miss Torbay Maddy Watkins cuts the pudding.
It was tried again in 1859, this time to mark the arrival of the railway, and this is where the trouble began.
It was intended that 850 poor parishioners with their families and more than 300 railway navvies should sit at tables on Paignton Green and consume the pudding after first clearing a meal of 1,900lb of meat, 1,900lb of bread 'and an unlimited supply of Paignton cider'. I can see the red warning flag here. You can see the red warning flag here. In 1859, somebody didn't see the red warning flag here.
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Some 18,000 people flocked from all over Devon to see the spectacle, and the pudding was properly cooked this time. It was made in segments and later assembled so that it weighed one-and-a-half tons, had a circumference of 13ft 6ins at the base and 5ft at the top. It was so heavy that a team of eight horses were needed to pull it.
The savoury courses and cider drinking went 'according to plan' but when the sweet arrived, there was a rush and an undignified riot ensued. A lethal, roit-inducing cocktail of local cider and sunshine may have been in some way to blame.
The pudding was ripped apart by the crowd until not a morsel was left.
Over the years there have been other attempts to revive the Paignton Pudding tradition. In 1986, to mark the Paignton 900 celebrations, a similar spectacle to 1859 was organised, the pudding arriving by train and then towed down to Paignton Green — this time by a traction engine.
To avoid another riot, the puddings were individually made in little pots, and everything passed off peacefully.
An enormous wooden casket, containing 900 miniature puddings, was mounted on a wagon and slowly paraded by a steam-driven traction engine through the streets to Paignton Green.
In 2009, an 11st pudding was baked in honour of Paignton Regatta by local bakers Halletts. It was the 150th anniversary of the riots, after all.
Al Wyatt and Guy Henderson remove the pudding from the train.
That was the year Big Al and I took the pudding from a steam train on the Paignton and Dartmouth Railway and carried it out into Torbay Road.
It may have been a small pudding compared to its predecessors all those years ago, but it was mighty heavy, and we came within a whisker of covering the carriageway with currants and crumbs.
In 2014 the whole country learned about the pud in an episode of the Great British Bake-Off, when Mel and Sue took a look at the tradition of the pudding during the show's short-lived educational segment.
It was a hoot, of course, but the Paignton Pudding is far more than just an over-sized Spotted Dick knocked out for high days and holidays. It's a Paignton tradition, and this pudden-eater reckons it's time we baked another one.
If you want to try it, here's the recipe for the pudding they made in 1986:
The ingredients stirred in were as follows:
573lb of flour
191lb of bread
382lb of raisins
191lb of currants
382lb of suet
95lb of sugar
320 lemons
144 nutmegs
There were dozens of eggs and 360 quarts of milk. Estimates of the total weight varied between 21 hundredweight and one and half tons.
If you are a young person who thinks in Metric, ask a grown-up to explain the measurements for you.


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It was early 2010, when I was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with a group of friends. It did not take longer than 2 days for me to get into a raw state of being: a raw state is when/where everything and anything that is not essential to your being just naturally leaves you and you're left with what's basically raw in you. I was deeply immersed in this state until day 5, one day before reaching the top! I suffered from altitude sickness, and I had to descend, accompanied by one of the guides, to recover. Of course, I was, back then, in a semi state of euphoria due to the lack of oxygen; yet despite my breathing difficulties I insisted on having a conversation with my guide, asking him all sorts of questions. At some point I asked him how many times he climbs Kili in a year. His answer was at least 6 times, because it allows him to make enough money to transfer his daughter from a public school to a private one. My natural reaction was to propose to sponsor her schooling, since the amount was about two hundred and fifty US Dollars. What followed was beyond words! My guide froze and tears rolled down his eyes, as if the universe had given the world to him! I will never forget that moment, from what I saw in front of me to how I felt, and it was then that I said to myself that if I have to live for one more day, this is what I want to be doing; this is the heart I want to be touching and be touched by.
I left Kili to return to London where I was finishing my MBA. For me, an MBA shapes the mind into more globalism and adds a lot of knowledge and skills.
An array of events preceded the Kili moment. I had experienced lots of losses of different kinds, many in a row or in conjunction. That led me to rethink and transform my own life with a new sense of determination and awareness. I grew very interested in supporting others, particularly through microfinance; so I started building up for a microfinance institution in my home country. This exercise exposed me, more in depth, into the industry that fascinated me, but what captivated even more were all the people who work and dedicate themselves to this purpose.
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"I think that more Knights are made on the school-ground than on the battle field."
I am interested in putting together a kit and begin reenacting as a Medieval knight. I am wanting to focus on late 13th and early 14th century Ireland, probably during the Bruce invasion. I am not new to reenacting as I am currently the First Sergeant for a Union Civil War unit.
I am currently going back to college to get my bachelors in history and my focus will be Medieval history. History has always been a major interest of mine, and I am hoping to change careers upon the completion of my degree. I have always been interested by the knights and castles of the Medieval Age and look forward to this journey.
Welcome to the community. I look forward to your thoughts and contributions.
Hey there. Some of us newbies aren't experienced in reenactment at all, so don't be shy about sharing tips and advice!
Matthew, the biggest thing that I can say is do your research into whatever period you're looking at. Authenticity is key, but at the same time don't break the bank. I watched a YouTube video that Sir Ian did on his channel (Knyght Errant) where he goes over his soft kit. I liked what he had to say about not overlooking the basics first. A lot of people will go straight for the weapons and armor, but your everyday gear is going to be the key stuff to get first in my opinion.
If your kit is going to be late 13th- early 14th, The armor you should be looking for is this.
That is; covered in mail armor from head to toe, then a coat of plates, knee and elbow caps, cuisses, and the shoulder decoration known as ailettes. As well as a Dargen, Madeln, or Sugarloaf style bucket helm.
I would also recomend starting with a soft kit first, basic clothing, then padded armor, then steel armor.
Naythan, thank you. That helps me a lot. I have started to look into soft kits and will be making my first purchase here in the next month or so.
Thank you for the solid advice. No one has ever been steered wrong by being directed to Sir Ian's channel! The man is a veritable library in his own right.
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Jeremy Millar describes himself as a Lecturer in Social Work and a practicing human being. Certainly Jeremy teaches on the BA and BA(Hons) Social Work (Residential Child Care) by Distance Learning, and the BA and BA (Hons) Social Work courses at Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen. His research interests which include Care Leavers, Participation, and Cultural Competence vouchsafe his status as a concerned and practicing human being. In an article which is jaunty and humorous in tone, Jeremy, from a humanist position, raises uncomfortable but fundamental questions about the personal qualities required of someone who provides professional care and at the same time he challenges us to think about the validity of the current social inclusion/exclusion paradigm.
I belong to a number of what may be termed communities of practice which offer a platform to explore both the philosophy underpinning our work in the social care field and the realities of translating our values into practice. One recent discussion on CYC-net www.cyc-net.org looked at personal favouritism in our work with children and young people.
In attempting to disentangle the personal, "I struggle to spend time in the company of Johnny" from the more universal value informed assertion that; "I care for all people equally" It might be helpful to address this knotty paradox by focussing on the core value of 'unconditional positive regard' which is introduced in many social work courses. How do we truly engage with this value?
As I age and perhaps develop some wisdom I am coming to a sense that Rogers and others are talking about a deep love of humanity in all its guises. The acceptance of the 'other' has to be from the heart without artifice. This value is in itself arguably conditional on our personal journey and our sense of an unconditional loving experience in our own lives.
This is potentially where this discussion gets seriously complicated; if one has had a poor or non-existent experience of unconditional love, are we able to offer it to others? Can we teach this value in the classroom or is it best modelled in the practice setting? Is it our role as educators and supervisors to 'love' our students and colleagues? If we believe that such a value is crucial to the task of working therapeutically with children and young people who have been seriously damaged by negative attachment experiences, should we actively screen workers for their ability to empathically connect with those in their care without exercising personal favour?
In order to mitigate for some of the complexities highlighted above we need, at the least, to practice in environments that supports and models from the top down unconditional positive regard. We need to educate and supervise in a manner that promotes personal reflection and self discovery of this capacity. Rogers was optimistic about the human condition, believing that we all have the resources for personal growth. It would be a policy of despair, in our field, to believe otherwise.
To create the space for growth, personally and within our organisations we need to speak out against the oppressive systems in our lives, workplaces, communities and society in general that distance us from our capacity to love unconditionally.
We are failing those in our duty of care if we allow our workplaces to replicate the hierarchical power systems that ration resources based on discriminatory subjective choices and prevailing notions of deserving and undeserving recipients.
One choice is to see ourselves as all being in the same boat striving towards the same goal, one of reaching out to those most unlovable and in so doing bringing humanity closer together.
There is a strong political sub text to this approach that involves the capacity to love our oppressors and in so doing bring them to the capacity for unconditional positive regard. I haven't quite worked this one out yet!
Surely an 'unconditional positive regard' born of an intellectual understanding of all the issues is far more reliable than the temperamental fluctuations of the heart? I think empathy can be learned and comes from the understanding of another human being's struggle. Recognition of the reasons for 'unsympathetic' behaviour is key to feeling empathy. I wonder if it may be better to screen workers for a shared rather than opposing history: finding those that have grown through a similar struggle and come to 'feel' empathy as a result of truly understanding its import.
I would agree that one can indeed learn to empathise and this ability is key to nurturing the Other. In respect of the merit of the worker themselves having similar previous experiences I am not sure how relevant this is. Part of me thinks of spiritual leaders and charismatic individuals who are unconditionally open to people and have an intangible healing quality to their presence. What is it about them and how can these qualities be adapted to the residential setting?
I am inclined to an analogy of Buddhist practice in which we develop a good habit of constant shedding of ego attachments to the sufferings of the physical world. At the practical level this involves reflexivity in a relaxed steady manner. The practices of being ever open to the moment; be it the sunset, a whiff of cigar or the cry of anguish in a troubled soul.Needless to say the practice is hard, often perversely, because others in pain demand a heightened emotional response to validate their suffering. Not complying with this pressure equates to the idea of being alongside someone rather than enmeshed in some reciprocal expression of neediness. Other workers in my experience can feel threatened by what they may characterise as an uncaring/aloof attitude, however the young people relate well to this steadiness and predictability of character which is often coupled with a passion and energy for an interest completely out with the daily concerns of the milieu. I reminded of the documentary called 'Bad boys' on the work carried out at Pepper Harrow. This one lad gained an abiding interest in classical Greek through the input of one passionate staff member. Could that happen in our regulated world. Have we still the ability to think ourselves into these possible worlds?
I'll stop before the tangents become more obtuse.


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New Zealand Geography and Climate
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One could say that New Zealand offers the whole world in a single country. Here you will find everything from snow-capped mountains to tropical rainforests, so for many, this country is equal to the dream of the perfect holiday. For Swedes, of course, there is a catch, because New Zealand is very far away from Europe and the rest of the world. The country is a group of islands located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and was discovered by the Dutch Abel Tasman in 1642. When he first saw the country's snow-capped mountains, he described it as a country that rises high up.
Since 1907, New Zealand has been a British property with autonomy. The country exercises parliamentary democracy that works with the same model as that used in England. New Zealand consists of several islands and two larger land masses called the North Island and the South Island. The distance from Australia across the Tasman Sea is about 1,500 km and the country is about 1,000 km south of New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and the Pacific Islands. The capital is Wellington but the largest city is Auckland. In New Zealand, most of the descendants are from the British who once settled on the islands, but here there are several minority groups who are descendants of other peoples. The official languages are English, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language.
Geography and climate
New Zealand has a mild coastal climate and before people came to settle on the islands, they were largely covered by forest. As the area lies between two tectonic plates, the Pacific plate and the Indo-Australian plate, there are plenty of mountain peaks that have a sharp profile. The total land area for the country is 268,680 square kilometers and if you measure the length of the two main islands, the country is longer than 1,600 km. The two main islands are separated by Cook Strait and the other five inhabited islands are called Stewart Island, Chatham Islands, Great Barrier Island, d'Urville Island and Waiheke Island. Just like in Norway, you meet in this country of high peaks and deep valleys as well as fjords. The northern main island has fewer mountains but offers active volcanoes.
According to BRIDGAT, the climate is mild and temperatures are between 10 ° C in the south to 16 ° C in the north. The southern parts of the southern main island have a cooler climate with more cloudiness. The snow season on the southern island is between June and October. On the northern island, snowfall is not as common.
New Zealand does a lot of exporting and the most important partner was once the United Kingdom. This co-operation began to falter in 1973 when the United Kingdom joined the EU. This led to New Zealand looking for other markets to export to. New collaborations were initiated with countries such as Japan, Australia and the USA. It mainly exports wool, lamb, beef, cheese, fish and chemicals.


That was the result for the Australian Open Final 2010. Roger Federer is back. And Andy Murray disappoints again (much like US Open, being Great Britain's hope and everything) and he remains the only top 5 players who hasn't won a Grand Slam. Better luck next time, Murray.
Australian Open: I am currently watching the livescore of the match between Andy Murray and Marin Cilic. I really hope that Cilic makes it to the final. UK fans would disagree. But really, Murray has never won a Grand Slam before and he came so close at the US Open in 2008, but Cilic is different. He's fresh. He's climbing the ranking and is reaching the Top 10. Murray has since fallen to 4th from 2nd. So there are my reasons. But now they are each down by one set so it's a tight game.
*Update: And it looks like Murray is controlling the game now! Go Cilic!
Our final semester is organized pretty well because we have classes from Monday to Thursday and has the whole weekend free. That gives us time to do our project or just relax during the weekend. Today I brought my cam along to class and naturally we snapped away so here I want to share some pictures from today's lunch time with the girls.
The pic below is the faulty chair that Kenneth sat on and fell backwards last year. It was such a memorable moment for us ;) Nina decided to try sitting on it…and it didn't fall!
That's actually all I want to say about the chicken. You can rest assured that it did not go to waste.
I have set my mind to focus on the project and only the project, at least for the week. I have a feeling I am the only one who hasn't progressed since the last exam. I have a lot to catch up on before the meeting so I have to focus. And that's my word of the week.
How's my hostel life? Actually, there's not much life at the hostel. My nearest neighbour is 5 rooms away and I got nobody to fight over the shower in the morning. It is near isolation here at my floor. Well, at least I got wi-fi, however crappy it is. Here are some views of the hostel.
Happy Australia Day to all Australians. Speaking of which, the Australian Open is now in the quarterfinals with today's match featuring the winnings of Murray over Nadal, and Cilic over Roddick. I might add that it's the first time Cilic goes to a semis in a Grand Slam. Great achievement for the world number 14, especially after playing three 5-setters games in this tournament itself.
Also, up tomorrow is the much awaited Federer vs. Davydenko and also Djokovic vs. Tsonga. It's a dangerous game for Nole since Tsonga is a really tough player to beat. I hope to see both Federer and Djokovic in the semis.
I was a bit distracted by the tv earlier but now that American Idol is over, I can sit down and write a proper post.
Prof Hosking left yesterday and we actually cancelled two classes just so we could go to the airport to bid him farewell. You can read about it in Nina's blog as well. And here are the photos courtesy of Fakhriah.
Dr Hooke would kill us if he saw what we were doing!
Rain. Need I say more? The thing I like about the rain is my room is somehow cozier and colder. I can walk outside without thinking about the heat. But alas, when I actually walked outside yesterday, I was soaked knee down even with an umbrella. Walking becomes uncomfortable and as I let my feet dry in the air conditioned room, they feel frozen.
My dad is seriously thinking about wearing a pair of rubber boots and walking around Gadong in it. He said it's more comfortable and with the raining pouring for the rest of the month, why not? Nobody is going to notice. Yeah, right. I told him that if he ever wears one, I'm going to pretend I don't know him.
We went to a restaurant yesterday. Besides the slight drizzle, the weather pretty much held up. But as we start eating, the drizzle quickly transformed into a moderate downpour. I wasn't worried because I know I have my trusty umbrella in my bag. I always carry it around with me. When we are done eating, my dad asked for my umbrella and confidently, I reached out into my bag. "Eh? Where is it?" I suddenly remembered that earlier I placed it in a bag, the other bag. Looking up at my dad, I smiled guiltily.
I don't know if you call it fate or fortune, but we happened to be right across the multi-accessorized shop, Happy Star. For once the shop is a life saver. But of course the umbrella dad got costs $1.80. His account of the experience using the umbrella was, "A whip of the wind will break the damn thing" He managed to get to the car and come back to get us so all was saved no thanks to me, but thanks to the $1.80 store.
Like I said, I love the rain but sometimes, it can be unreliable just like the sun.
Yes, if you are the up-to-date type of person always watching the entertainment news it would've been old news for you. He is Emma Watson's brother Alex. I heard he is only 16 and already he is posing for the Burberry Ad with his sister. He actually acted in the latest Harry Potter film as one of the background guys. I'm sure he's gonna find himself in more major roles in the future.
He's so animated when he lecture and he owe us 8 minutes in just two lecture classes. Somehow, I have a feeling we're never getting back our 8 minutes from him, not that we mind since we're time-wasters ourselves.
The days are rainy and the nights are cold. Maybe the January heavy downpour to the point of flood is coming. Brace yourself for another episode of the great flood!
I've seen the timetable already and it's not as heavy as I've expected. But then again, the tutorials aren't added in yet so I might have to wait and see how full my schedule is gonna be. I also took my key today and that can only mean moving - yet again.
I had lunch with my friends at Express earlier today. We wanted to see a lecturer but he wasn't around so we'll have to wait until next week. I'm actually watching Ugly Betty now and I wanna finish it before Monday. Go Betty!
There's a band you guys should really check out on YouTube which I think deserves much attention. The band's called A Cue Stic[k] and I've been listening to their music for sometime now. They actually look like this lecturer. The resemblance is uncanny!
Last but not least, I want to wish a very happy birthday to a dearest friend of ours, Siti Aden Nabilah. May you have a wonderful year. Have fun on your birthday!
Less than a week to go before I have to move again. I've got my results for last semester's exam but I still don't know the practical attachment's result. We had a group chat yesterday trying to figure out whether we're being neglected again...but we're gonna ask the coordinator soon.
My results are okay, but not what I wanted of course. It could've been much worse so I guess I shouldn't complain. You reap what you sow. I guess I didn't study the past-year paper hard enough. Yes, sadly, that's the only way to get a good score these days. The lecturers are so damn lazy!
Another few months of this and we're good to go!
I don't know whether I want the holiday to end or not. But whatever will be will be right? I guess I'll have to look forward to lectures next week. Yay?!
I was trying to measure the distance between two places so I used Google Earth. Here's a simple method if you're interested.
After drawing the path, the path name will appear in the Places tab. Copy the KML path name as shown below.
Then, paste the KML as shown below. Press "Calculate".
There you have it, the distance between a route that I wanted to know was 5.906 km. It's pretty useful if you wanna know how far is one place from another. Go ahead and try.
Hello 2010! New Year is a great feeling as you feel fresh (even though you're not) and you make new goals (even though you never seem to follow them). I have to admit that I am dreading the coming semester but I will make it work and that's a promise. I hope this year is a great year for me since it's a year of change. It's a year where I move from one bus stop to the next. I still haven't reached my destination yet but this is my routine. LOL What an ugly description!
Anyway, blabbers aside, I celebrated my new year at home barbeque style with a humble group of people. Without further ado, I present you some snapshots.
The result of eating lamb chop. Poor fork.
We finished early though and missed the countdown. But I had a sleepover and woke up pretty late. But it was quite good, I'm talking about the food of course. hah.
Now, I'm awaiting my results. Bring it!


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Short-termism refers to an excessive focus on short-term results at the expense of the long term.
Numerous politicians, on both sides of the aisle, and most recently Hillary Clinton, have sought to blame the weak economic recovery over the last several years, on the perception that corporate America is consumed with an effort to maximize short-term results. This contention has looked to relatively slow capital spending, increased share buybacks and higher dividends as evidence of short-termism.
The emphasis on quarterly earnings is probably largely a media driven circus, combined with an excessive focus on analyst's estimates and microscopic variances between estimated and actual results.
Most management compensation packages include stock options that gain value through improving share prices over multi-year periods, not on a one quarter spike.
Annual GDP growth during the current economic recovery substantially trails prior comparable periods. Washington, listen up.
Wage growth has been unusually weak (Q2 2015 was the weakest in 33 years) and workforce participation is at record lows, leaving consumers unable to support demand growth.
It's difficult for managements to justify significant capacity expansion in the face of stagnant demand.
In the absence of revenue gains, management has focused on margin improvement.
With interest rates approaching zero, acquisitions are often immediately accretive, while capital expenditures for increased capacity can take years to produce a return on investment.
The US corporate tax code is an irrational jumble of disincentives that the political class has proven to be unable or unwilling to correct.
And finally, if you want to talk about short-termism, consider the political class and its focus on the next election cycle rather than the long-term interests of their constituents.
Successful investing is not based on short-termism, unless you are a hedge fund. Most investors, with a long term perspective, seek to find companies with the potential to provide consistent, above average growth combined with the potential for an increasing and predictable dividend.
Bottom line, economic growth of less than 2% isn't working for anyone. Political class, please note.


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GBSLEP Board Director Ewa Truchanowicz discusses how collaboration is the key to unlocking potential of SMEs
SMEs are the lifeblood of any regional economy. Research from the Federation of Small Businesses showed that at the start of 2020 there were 5.9 million small businesses in the UK, which accounts for over 99% of the total business population.
Three fifths of the UK workforce are employed by SMEs and these businesses are responsible for over half of the total turnover for the private sector, raising around £2.3 trillion.
Undoubtedly, SMEs operating in all sectors will have been heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and with the ongoing uncertainty of Brexit, it is vital that small to medium size enterprises source expert advice, utilise their entrepreneurial flair and look for new ways and methods in which their companies can continue to thrive.
Many businesses have looked to pivot and adapt their working models to increase productivity, efficiencies and break into new markets.
Working or sharing information with businesses in other sectors and keeping an open mind will also help foster new ideas, new innovations and improved efficiencies as we enter "the new normal".
Collaboration is a key theme for GBSLEP as we continue to engage with businesses and our partner organisations to continue to provide the right support for SMEs, both financially and to boost skills. A number of schemes and programmes are currently available to businesses in different sectors.
We have recently launched Peer Networks, a national peer-to-peer networking programme which will be delivered locally via GBSLEP's Growth Hub. It will feature the creation of diverse networking and mentoring groups to enable individuals to collaboratively work through common business issues.
The programme will be delivered by expert facilitators specialising in a range of topics including sales, marketing, HR and finance and will include interactive group learning sessions as well as opportunities for one-to-one mentoring. We have also launched the Skills and Apprenticeship Hub – a one stop service to deliver a business focused skills offer to employers and apprentices across our GBSLEP region.
Our Growth Hub is a vital resource for businesses based here and can offer free advice for businesses looking for support. The Growth Hub also has strong relationships with a number of organisations within the private and public sector, which can provide further sector-specific advice and opportunities for SMEs looking to grow.
The success of SMEs goes hand in hand with the prosperity of our region. With the productivity and output of our small to medium sized businesses we can work to deliver interventions that drive inclusive economic growth, resulting in more jobs and in a better society for all our citizens.
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Text from APOD: NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, it is also one of the dustiest. Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 lies only about ten million light-years distant. NGC 253 is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies. The dense dark dust accompanies a high star formation rate, giving NGC 253 the designation of starburst galaxy. Visible in the above photograph is the active central nucleus, also known to be a bright source of X-rays and gamma rays.