It was stained, ugly and in dumpster condition-just my kind of tray!
So after some primer, my FAV custom BEHR color and a "Welcome" decal from the Dollar Tree, VOILA!
SO MUCH BETTER! Great redo!
Adorable! I love the black and white. This was such a clever idea and you did an amazing job! Hope you feel better soon!
I love it! Never would guess it's the same tray.
This turned out so pretty! I see this all the time when I'm thrifting. Now I'll have to pick one up & try this project out!
The tray looks amazing,you would never know that it was the same tray...love the decal too.
so pretty! love what you did to makeover the tray!
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It's been over a month since I went freelance, crazy.
Chief achievement this week I would say is setting up a schedule. With multiple projects and no hard deadlines, every morning requires a mental exercise to figure out what the smartest thing to be working on right now is. And 'what I most feel like' is not a very good qualifier. It also scatters my attention as I can switch activities at any time. So I decided to set aside certain days for certain projects, and to include at least one day where I work off-site and dive into business research. It's up on my wall right next to my workstation.
In part thanks to this Off-stage is updating again. Every tuesday to start off. I could probably do twice a week but I need to get faster at drawing it first. While posting I also glanced at the date of the last update – over three months ago. Yowza, time really flies sometimes.
I also started work on a short science fiction Flash game with a friend. We've talked about collaborating since we were in highschool and it is finally happening. The game is mainly GUI-based, think Oblivion meets Google's iOS design, which is an interesting challenge as I don't normally do much interface design. I'll have something to show off soon.
Also: holy crap Mark Of The Ninja is super super good.
And oh yes there's this.


This week has gone by way too fast, TIME in general is just flying by! Crazy huh? It's a bit scary if you ask me. Sadly, I am not looking forward to this weekend at all, considering I am closing all three nights at my other job, should not be fun!!!
Anyway, besides my crazy busy schedule of working, I finally had time to relax and grab a drink on such a beautiful day with a friend today! Check out my look.. PS I know I over wear this skirt, ha but I LOVE IT! White is definitely such a great color to wear in the summer time, and I love the bottom part of the skirt too, gives it a bit of a feminine girly look!
I bought the top from ZARA of course... lol. Everything here is from ZARA but the skirt. I am legit obsessed with ZARA. I love that this top can be worn casually but also dressy. ZARA still has a huge sale going on, so I bought it for like $20 bucks! These shoes also are really comfy and not too high!


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Abu Dhabi: Over the last two years, a total of 258 cases have been reported in the capital in which children had ingested foreign objects, a doctor said on Thursday.
While coins made up the majority of ingested items, more and more children are swallowing multiple magnets and this can lead to major internal injuries, said Dr Nafea Alyasi, paediatric gastroenterology fellow at the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City.
"In 2018, we saw 14 children who had swallowed magnets, and among them, two children had ingested multiple magnets. They were facing severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and the magnets had to be removed surgically," Dr Alyasi told Gulf News.
"These magnets are today easily available as toys and children, who ingest them can face obstruction, perforation and ulceration in the stomach and intestines. A lot of children had also swallowed button batteries, and these are just as hazardous," he added.
Dr Alyasi was speaking on the sidelines of the Elite Paediatric Gastroenterology Conference, which was organised by the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City.
The hospital is the capital's referral hospital, and all cases of foreign body ingestion are seen and treated there.
About 40 per cent of foreign body ingestion cases reported to the hospital between 2016 and 2018 involved coins. In 16 per cent of cases, children had swallowed button batteries. But there were all manner of others objects as well, including needles, scarf pins and keys. The children were aged between four months and 16 years, Dr Alyasi said.
"When children turn six months old, they finally learn to grasp things and tend to put everything in their mouths. This is when parents must become especially careful," the doctor advised.
He explained that button batteries can cause severe burning and irritation.
"I conducted a simple experiment by placing a button battery between two pieces of salami, and a coin between two other slices. Within an hour, one could notice a burn on the slices with the battery, and the burn became very pronounced after three hours. Within the human body, this can be extremely damaging and dangerous," Dr Alyasi said.
This is why doctors must remove an ingested battery that is stuck in the oesophagus within a two-hour window, otherwise it could require advanced surgical repair.
Coins and single magnets, on the other hand, often pass through the intestine on their own.
"The risk arises when these objects block the oesophagus or lead to choking. As for multiple magnets, they stick to one another and can perforate the walls of the intestine, oesophagus or stomach," he cautioned.
Among older children, the cases of foreign body ingestion can be rather unusual.
"We've seen seven to eight cases where 15-year-old girls had ingested scarf pins. In other cases, older children also swallow weird items as a dare. I've once seen a 10-year-old girl who had ingested seven coins," Dr Alyasi said.
The doctor therefore advised parents to rush their children to the emergency department if they suspected that a foreign body had been swallowed.
"We have not faced any fatalities so far, but there have been tragic deaths after children ingested foreign bodies in other countries. We should be careful and prevent this from happening here," Dr Alyasi said.
■ 0.05% magnets, but this number is on the rise. Of the 14 cases, two involved multiple magnets and had to be dealt with surgically.
Keep toys with small magnets away from children aged four months and older.
Store batteries away from children, and try to ensure that the battery chamber in toys does not open up easily.
If a child starts coughing or choking suddenly, think foreign body ingestion and check for it.
If you suspect that something has been swallowed, rush your child to the hospital without delay. In Abu Dhabi, go to Shaikh Khalifa Medical City. In Al Ain, approach Tawam Hospital, and in Dubai, go to Al Jalila Hospital or Dubai Hospital.
Caution older children against ingesting foreign objects as a dare.
■ A three-year-old ingested a magnet but was not brought in immediately. He developed a severe infection around his lungs and had to be hospitalised for 26 days.
■ A 10-year-old boy ingested two magnets and was facing severe abdominal pain. The objects had to be removed through laparoscopic surgery.
■ A 16-year-old girl accidentally ingested a scarf pin.


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Should the US Intervene for Tommy Robinson?
U.S. Representative Paul Gosar calls for the release of British political prisoner Tommy Robinson.
By: Sarah Cowgill June 18, 2018 - 5:00 am Narrated News, Politics
by Sarah Cowgill
Tommy Robinson, citizen journalist and activist, sits surrounded by the very gangs he was exposing in a British prison after being arrested, tried, and sentenced in a matter of hours — and that has U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) calling for President Trump to intervene on Robinson's behalf.
In a recent direct Twitter message to the president, Gosar stated that our once greatest ally, the British government, "seems more interested in covering up rape than seeking truth."
Gosar also expended his time on the House Floor to express his concerns in an official manner, on the record, to his fellow Members of Congress:
"Mr. Robinson, a British activist and journalist, was arrested and jailed for simply filming outside a public courtroom, and was sentenced to 13 months for this "crime." His real crime is not taking pictures; his real crime is his refusal to agree to the government's efforts to cover up crimes by Muslim gangs who are raping British girls."
How is this a Civilized World?
Western nations have been self-victimized by political correctness and the fear of insulting the different cultural practices of those who have migrated to their shores. Nowhere is this more evident than in Great Britain.
Case in point, the arrest of Kevin Crehan, of inner-city Bristol, England, for the heinous hate crime of leaving a bacon sandwich outside of Jamia Mosque. Crehan was sentenced to one year in prison but was found DEAD in his cell, halfway through his sentence.
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Meanwhile, grooming gangs are roaming free throughout the nation, raping young girls at will, and having the government downplay and seemingly cover-up their heinous crimes in fear of insulting Islam.
As Tommy Robinson attempted to film and live stream one of these accused gangs, he was summarily carted off for disturbing the peace.
Frankly, the good citizens of the U.K. need a solid uprising to stem the takeover of their country before we see a rise in such Islamist practices.
Recently, Liberty Nation's Mark Angelides and Laura Valkovic were on site at Trafalgar Square to cover the "Free Tommy Robinson" rally where they discovered internet communications were interrupted in and around the protest area, including the area outside the Prime Minister's residence, 10 Downing Street, making live streaming near to impossible. Interviewing supporters of Robinson at the event, LN discovered that citizens are afraid of where their country is headed. (Watch here)
And when that happens, as their current course appears to predict, the United States will step in again, as history repeats, to liberate an ally.
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Muslim migration has exploded in Great Britain and according to Pew Research Center:
"Overall, an estimated 43 percent of all migrants to the UK between mid-2010 and mid-2016 were Muslims. Relatively few recent immigrants to the UK (60,000) were refugees, but more than 1.5 million regular migrants arrived there in recent years."
Most Muslims are peaceful, but with a friendly, if not lackadaisical government wishing to avoid offending their sensibilities, Islamist extremists will tag along and take root.
The threat is real. The reaction of government is either complacent or complicit, but either way, it's a course that requires an immediate reversal or else Great Britain will find itself in a pickle worthy of extreme civil unrest.
Gosar's concerns are not hysteria or Islamaphobic as detractors will say. The United States should stand up against the oppressive government policies that have imprisoned Tommy Robinson for seeking and espousing the truth — however unpleasant and embarrassing for London and Great Britain. Unless memories have been stunted and history completely erased, a small group of colonists took on the Empire and quashed oppression a few hundred years ago.
Perhaps there is to be another uprising by the regular Geeves and Gillians in Great Britain. And if that prediction comes to fruition, America should be at the ready to take up arms, once again, in defense of freedom.
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Welcome to the web site of Prof. Kazuto ARAKAWA Laboratory at Next-Generation Tatara Co-Creation Centre (NEXTA), Shimane University.
Crystalline lattice defects (point defects (vacancies and self-interstitial atoms), point-defect clusters, and dislocations, etc.) – local disorders of atomic arrangement - often govern macroscopic properties of various energy-related materials, such as nuclear-fission and fusion materials, boiler materials for thermal power plants, high-pressure hydrogen storage materials, bonding wires for LSI, and light-emitting devices, and general structural materials such as bridge materials. However, even for pure metals with comparatively simple structures, structures and behaviors of defects have been remaining to be clarified.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is an extremely useful technique for observing structures and dynamic behaviors of local structures such as defects in real space. By direct TEM observations of behaviors of individual nanoscale defects in metals and semiconductors, we have uncovered important properties of them (K. Arakawa et al.: Nature Materials (2020), K. Arakawa et al.: Science (2007), K. Arakawa et al.: Physical Review Letters (2006), etc). Recently, we succeeded in extracting behaviors of ultra-fast moving single point defects (T. Amino, K. Arakawa et al.: Scientific Reports (2016)).
Our laboratory is driving researches on defects using TEM. Our goals are (1) establishment of the bases for prediction of accumulation processes of defects under defect-introduction environments and the consequential macroscopic-property variation, and (2) developments of new-functional materials based on the controls of defect behaviors, which we call "defect engineering."
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Home Basketball Unicaja clings to the Nzosa effect against Ejim's Buducnost
Unicaja clings to the Nzosa effect against Ejim's Buducnost
Granca and Andorra open the day against Virtus and Cedevita. The rest of the matches, on Wednesday: Bahçesehir-Joventut and Unicaja-Buducnost.
Gran Canaria opens the third day of the Eurocup as far as Spanish teams are concerned in Ljubljana (Slovenia) against Cedevita Olimpija (6:30 p.m., DAZN). The island team's rival is the curious result of the merger of Ljubljana-based KK Olimpija from Slovenia and Croatian club KK Cedevita from Zagreb. First time this happens with two teams from different countries. El Granca have won both of their matches in this competition.
Funny about the Cedevita. It is the first team to lose a match 0-20 in European competitions due to a positive for COVID-19. The Balkan team should have faced the Turkish Frutti Extra Bursaspor last Wednesday, but the match was not played due to the aforementioned circumstance.
For its part, Andorra will receive the illustrious Virtus Bolonia, a great one who has come to less than that but has excellent players such as Teodosic, the eternal shooter or the former Unicaja Markovic and Josh Adams. The Andorrans have improved their bad start with victories in Antwerp and Manresa.
The rest of the games are played on Wednesdays. Joventut visit Istanbul to face Bahçesehir Koleji (6:00 PM DAZN), an Ottoman team without the potential of the country's traditional bigwigs. Those of Carles Durán have started like a shot. 4/5 victories in Liga Endesa and full in Europe.
Unicaja, which achieved a very important and revitalizing victory in Valencia, receives Buducnost at the Martín Carpena (8:45 p.m. Martín Carpena DAZN). This Montenegrin team will be a tough opponent. He has won both of his matches and features Melvin Ejim. The Canadian played last season for the Malaga team. And since it came out more or less regular, it may come with a desire for revenge and showing off.
The victory in La Fonteta, which has raised the spirits of the Greens, was cemented in the magic triangle formed by Alberto Díaz, Brizuela and Abromaitis. And of course Yannick Nzosa. The young 16-year-old pivot has already accumulated eight blocks in three games, four of them in a single game against Valencia. Youngest player to do so by beating Porzingis' record in a Cajasol (now Coosur-Betis) -Baskonia match in 2013 when he was 18 years and four months old. Another record for the Nzosa Buchaca.
Unicaja, with a win and a loss, must beat Buducnost to avoid complications in this Eurocup.
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There is a large number of Universities in Germany with a great proportion of them being ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. Germany offers quality education in diverse fields of study for students aspiring to Study Abroad. We present a list of five best universities in Germany for International Students, which will help you achieve your career goals through study abroad.
Freie University of Berlin
The Freie University of Berlin or Freie Universität Berlin, as it is locally known, is a top-ranking research university and is the largest research university in the City of Berlin. The university has an open and friendly policy towards students who come to Study Abroad at the university. Freie University was ranked at the 87th position on the QS World University Rankings in 2018 and has formed partnerships with India, United States, Belgium, Russia, China, and Egypt, where it has opened its branch offices which enable it to more easily recruit students from these countries.
Heidelberg University was founded in 1386 and is one of the oldest Universities in Germany. The university which is ranked 55th in the world is renowned for its programs in Science and has more than 20 percent of its student body comprised of students who came to Study Abroad at the university. Moreover, more than 60 percent of the doctoral students in the university are from overseas.
Humboldt University in Berlin is a full-fledged research institute that provides opportunities for students who Study abroad at the university to work with faculty that is world renowned in diverse fields such as quantitative economics, history, and climate and sustainability research. This university is one of the favorite destinations in Germany for students who are interested in research. The university, which is one of the oldest in Berlin, has 10 percent of its student body arriving here for study abroad from other countries.
Technical University Munich
Technische Universität München, (TUM) is Germany's highest ranked university in the world with a ranking of 60th position worldwide. The university is home to more than 5,000 international students who come to Study Abroad in Germany, which makes up 16 percent of its student body. The university is renowned for its courses in engineering and has formed partnerships with prestigious universities such as MIT, Stanford, Georgia Tech and Cornell as well as many universities in Europe and Asia.
LMU was placed at 60th position in QS world university rankings and has 15 percent of its student body made up of students who come to Germany to Study Abroad. The university has courses for both under graduation and Post-Graduation in more than 100 fields of study and has started introducing more classes in English in order to cater to students who come from other countries.
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package xworker.javafx.control;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.chrono.Chronology;
import java.util.Date;

import javafx.scene.control.ComboBoxBase;
import org.xmeta.ActionContext;
import org.xmeta.Thing;

import javafx.scene.control.DatePicker;
import xworker.javafx.util.JavaFXUtils;

public class DatePickerActions {
	public static void init(DatePicker picker, Thing thing, ActionContext actionContext) {
		ComboBoxBaseActions.init(picker, thing, actionContext);

		if(thing.valueExists("value")){
			LocalDate value = JavaFXUtils.getObject(thing, "value", actionContext);
			if(value != null){
				picker.setValue(value);
			}
		}

		if(thing.valueExists("chronology")) {
			Chronology chronology = JavaFXUtils.getChronology(thing.getString("chronology"));
			if(chronology != null) {
				picker.setChronology(chronology);
			}
		}

		if(thing.valueExists("showWeekNumbers")) {
			picker.setShowWeekNumbers(thing.getBoolean("showWeekNumbers"));
		}
	}

	public static DatePicker create(ActionContext actionContext) {
		Thing self = actionContext.getObject("self");

		DatePicker picker = new DatePicker();
		init(picker, self, actionContext);
		actionContext.g().put(self.getMetadata().getName(), picker);

		actionContext.peek().put("parent", picker);
		for(Thing child : self.getChilds()) {
			child.doAction("create", actionContext);
		}

		return picker;
	}
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Background of the Program
In its national mission of expanding the horizon of knowledge to larger populace, Haramaya University has made a commendable and great leap ahead since its inception. One of its tangible manifestations of the expansion and massification of higher learning was the opening of the Faculty of Education in1996.Two years later the Department of History was opened under the auspice of the Faculty of Education. Its major objective was the training of qualified secondary school and above history teachers.
Since 1998, the Department has been offering the four year-degree program in History education with Geography as minor. This four years program has been in place up until 2004 .By then the Ministry of education introduced a paradigm shift in teachers' training with what it came to be known as Teachers' Education System Overhaul, better known in its acronym-TESO. Accordingly, the department has been running a three years degree program in history education minoring geography.
However, in light of the recent rethinking and scholarly debate on the approaches or the modalities of training new university entrants who are going to be assigned in our faculty, our department has opted to implement the add on approach . Through this approach, the department strongly believes it would train and produce well-qualified historians. To realize the end, the department, by taking the timely opportunity, revisited its existing curriculum and developed a new curriculum.
The interplay of a number of justifications is guarantying the department to commence the new curriculum as of the coming academic year. Some of the justifications realized by the department are:
The Results of the need assessment and feasibility study reports press for an urgent need to revisit the existing history curriculum.
In the national workshop held under the auspice of the National Curriculum Council, with participation of various universities, the existing curriculum was defamed for a number of its defects. By then the following defects were pronounced with especial reference to Ethiopian History:
Content deficiency (Subject matter knowledge) by the graduates
Absence of Course related with the philosophy and methodological aspects in making research
Unbalanced allocation of credit hours,
Its spatial biases (North Centered)
Its political emphasis at the expense of other aspects of human past
Its chronological approach of course organization and others
The findings reflect that there is a pressing need to train historians with the powerful analytical and inquisitive thinking who have also fervent need to settle the historiographical imbalance among the Ethiopian Peoples. The result also meant the need to produce professionals who can make the knowledge of history a usable past for our society.
Indeed, the department has made a need assessment in 2007 to open a new program of study in non-Teaching stream. To the department's asset, the findings of the department and the current need assessment results at a national level have many things in common.
The new approach by the Ministry of Education opting the add-on approach will also provide us justification to launch the new program. From different angles, the new graduates will have a very good ground in their subject matter knowledge there by making them competent in their area of specialization and rectify the historical myths and misunderstandings in Ethiopian history. In addition, the Ministry of Education will benefit a lot by having graduates with good profile in subject matter knowledge. (It will be a double weapon)
The societal need of history and the pressing need to make the knowledge of the human past as usable.
Can we escape from the past? Indeed, we cannot. As a continuous dialogue between the past and the present, contemporary society continuously refer its collective achievements in the past as its charts the road for the future. Failure to understand the past would lead society to unending sea of darkness.
In a country like Ethiopia, there is lack of proper and balanced historical knowledge of all societies. In Ethiopia the knowledge of history is vulgarized and mystified. It is considered to the extent that the knowledge of history has nothing to contribute in the nation building by creating national consensus. One of its major reasons for such kind of misunderstanding lies on the curriculum. The existing history curriculum, especially on Ethiopian history, has a number of defects. To mention some:
The imbalance in temporal and spatial aspects
Its strong emphasis on political aspects at the expense of the other aspects of the human past such as economic, social, environmental, etc
Its due emphasis on narration of factual details failed to equip students with necessary skills of critical inquiry
More importantly, however, the academic context of Ethiopia in teaching history has manifestly failed to consider rethinking the contemporary global context in offering history courses. Because of the nature of the curriculum and its organization, we have been offering history courses more as a body of historical information and narration than an approach to basic knowledge and skills that practically create a link between history and the heritages of the human past. By creating a link between history and cultural and natural heritages of the human past, the knowledge of history can solve the pressing socio economic developments of the country. Therefore, in view of making the human past usable, the department needs to develop a new curriculum.
The Professional diversity and interdisciplinary educational background of the department members helps to run the program smoothly. The department members are graduates of history, archaeology, social anthropology, philosophy, and law. This diversity can enable the department to run the newly proposed program smoothly
Implications of the Findings
In view of the findings, the department designed its new curriculum by making a shift from a politically toned chronological arrangement into an approach that can create the liberty of discussing the different aspects of the past i.e. Thematic approach on Ethiopian History courses. We are also informed by the findings that more Ethiopian history courses, methodology courses and practical activities need to be part of the new program. Lastly, as the major objective of the department is to strengthen major area training, there is no need of including minor as part of our program. The impracticality of the minor area course also convinced the department not to incorporate any minor area in our new program of study.
The finding also persuaded the department to integrate heritage courses with history that can create opportunity in enhancing awareness on our rich heritage resources. For this and other strong justifications, that are discussed hereunder, the department proposed its renaming into History and Heritage Management.
Rationale for Designing the New Program
Heritage is the product of Historical processes among society. The theoretical understanding of historical knowledge without the skills of identifying and managing heritage resources cannot entail the change and continuity of the human past. The inclusion of Heritage courses in this program for our graduates provides not only the theoretical knowledge of history but also practical skills of managing heritage resources.
In terms of its nature, as it is true for other disciplines, the knowledge of history is expansive. History is the totality of the human past stretched in such distant past. Currently history is discussing every facets of human activity in the past. The versatile nature of the knowledge of history demands the inclusion of the relics and the fingerprints of the human past. To this end, the integration of heritage courses in this program is the logical conclusion of the expansion of the knowledge of history.
The national education policy demands trained professionals and experts who can create job instead of looking for employment. The entrepreneurial quality of our graduates can be realized if we integrate skill and practice oriented courses. In line with this it is the management of heritage courses that can solve this problem
The socioeconomic importance of the country's rich heritage resources are not yet exploited the level best. This was partly because the absence of trained professionals who can uncover the socio-economic potentials of heritage resources
The interpretation and presentation of Ethiopian history to date is shrouded by myths, biases, and imbalances in coverage and stereotypes, which are reconstructed from only written documents. The reconstruction and rewriting of our national history calls for an urgent use of alternative sources in addition to the living documents. In this regard, heritages courses can play a paramount role towards reconstructing a balanced and objective national history where all Ethiopian people's are fairly represented
In this curriculum the courses of study are developed and structured in such a way that student will acquire and develop basic knowledge of the historical material in depth, engage in exercise of critical thinking about historical themes and issues and to develop skills of identifying and solving historical problems through methodological research. Therefore, the main objectives of the curriculum includes
To train full-fledged researchers committed to the discipline of history and heritage management to tackle the problem of the society using the potentials and possibilities embedded in the profession.
To produce skilled personnel and professionals who carry out research in the political, economic, social and cultural history of Ethiopia
To produce professionals who are well versed in various aspects of the past, especially of Ethiopia and the horn of Africa (environmental, political, economic, social, ethnographic, dynamics and intricacies in the region).
To produce scholars with the tradition of tolerance towards the ethnic and cultural diversity of the country.
To create professionals with clear world view and ability to relate their profession with local, regional, national and international dynamics and realities andto create polymath students (candidates) who can give a good knowledge of history for the benefit of posterity
Professionals of History and Heritage Management are expected to:
Conduct researches in the fields of History and Heritage Management
Teach history in Educational institutions
Analyze History and Heritage Management experts in different institutions and at different levels
Manage many tasks as experts in the areas of intra and inter-ethnic and intra and inter religious relations
Engage in tourism and museum sectors as guides, curators, experts, and managers at different levels
Train and teach History and Heritage Management in higher and other institutions
Graduates in History and Heritage Management are equipped with good knowledge and skills in the fields of history and cultural studies that enable them:
Undertake scientific research in historical, historiographical and cultural aspects of Ethiopia and the Horn
Document Heritages of the peoples of Ethiopia and the Horn at local, national, and regional levels
Manage Heritages of the peoples of Ethiopia and the Horn at local, national, and regional levels
Advise or provide consultancy services to governmental and non-governmental organizations and private enterprises on History and Heritage Management issues at local, national, and regional levels
Engage in the tourism and museum sectors as guides, curators, experts, and managers
Serve as History and Heritage Management experts in local, national, regional, and international institutions
Serve as experts in the areas of intra and inter-ethnic and intra and inter religious relations of the region.
Analyze the socio-economic and environmental impact on the well being of heritage resources.
Design mechanisms for preserving historical and cultural heritages of Ethiopia
Create awareness among the peoples of Ethiopia of regarding their history and their cultural values and traditions
Degree Nomenclature
This new Curriculum is an embodiment of the draft curriculum which was prepared earlier by a group of professionals recruited and assigned from different Ethiopian Universities for the task of designing a draft for a new Curriculum for Under Graduate Program following the termination of TDP. Accordingly, the structure of the new program under implementation shows some discernible changes and modifications from the previous one. It first starts with minor alteration made on the Degree Nomenclature whereby it is termed as "Bachelor of Arts Degree in History". But since 2010/11 with the inclusion of new courses relevant to the students, the graduates in the department began to be awarded with a degree called "Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Heritage Management" in Amharic የባችለር አርት ድግሪ በታሪክና ቅርስ አስተዳደር
I. Admission Requirements
Entry to the Bachelor of Arts in History and Heritage Management is available only to those applicants who successfully completed their preparatory education in the field of social sciences and meet the minimum requirement to entry to university set by Ministry of Education. However, the respective University shall set different entry requirements for enrollment in the continuing education programs.
In order to qualify for graduation, students are required to cover the minimum load of credit points (that is, 180 ECTS) specified for the program. However, our students take 187 ECTS which is from a maximum load of credit points (that is, 190 ECTS) as per specific requirement of respective Universities. And students who successfully complete all courses with a minimum CGPA of 2.00 and with no "F" grade will be legible for graduation.
It will be undertaken for 3 successive years
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Tourism and Hospitality industry is one of the major pillars for socioeconomic developments, political advancements and maintaining of ecological balance. It is the sector that is serving as the source of income for one-tenth global population. It is a gear for the transformation in the degree of environmental preservation, women employment, and spread of education, strengthening of social tie and related progressive elements of human developments. Antiquity
Ethiopia, in this regards, is a country that is highly endowed with almost every type of tourism potentials that well preserved inheritances of several millennia old states. The legacies of long term interaction between different religious institutions and multi-ethnic and cultural communities made the country the home countless tangible and intangible cultural heritages. As a country that accepted Judaism and Christianity before Europe and Islam before the wider part of the Middle-East, old aged churches, mosques, writing systems, civilized cities are found in large quantity.
Innumerable natural elements of the country which are the results of prolonged geological process, wide-ranged climatic disparity and the interaction between the living and non-living things, is also the other reality that makes the country one of the most plausible place to spend once holiday in. It is the home of natural scenic environments ranging between 120M below sea level to 4620M above Sea level in altitude; from the very hot and arid Afar/Denakle depression to the very cold tops of Semein Massive. The ever-active volcano of Ertale, the major source of river Nile (i.e. Lake Tana), the greater lakes, and the endemic animals and plant species are the peculiarities of Ethiopia's natural environment that make Ethiopia the centre of tourism.
The Country is also the host of the head quarter of African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, embassies and legations of great majority of the countries in the world. Tourism has remained the part of Ethiopian government's plans as one of the major pillars of economic development since. In addition to this, the socio-political and economic situations make Ethiopia a very plausible holiday place. There are about 85 million interactive, hospitable people with more than eighty languages, feeding and wearing styles and cultural performances that are euphoric to be with tourists. Besides, the country is relatively socially and politically stable and secure. Moreover, costs for goods and services in Ethiopia are relatively less.
However the way tourism is developed and the overall benefit the country generates from the sector is extremely less as compared to the aforementioned and other attracting facts.
The development of tourism and hospitality sector is dependent on the system of scientific intertwining between the attractions (tourism potentials) amenities (services rendered for the customers) and accessibilities (infrastructural developments. Effective coexistence between these sectors will lead to achievement of the deemed developmental goals if and only if the industry is run by skilled professionals.
Aware of these facts, department of history and heritage management has gone several steps to launch a program that would produce professional to handle the future careers of the industry. It has made a team of tourism professionals in the department to take the initiative and work hard to launch the program. The team has found it important and made thorough and successful discussions with most concerned bodies in the university and made a baseline survey (need assessment) to analyze the market demand for professionals in the field. The DC of the Department of History and Heritage Management; College of Social Sciences and Humanities dean and AC of the college; Vice President for Academic Affairs; Academic Program Directorate; Head and SC of School of Animal and Range sciences; College of Business and Economics; Department of Management; etc. on the way for ward. Finally, after the agreement and decisions, a group of three lecturers Tourism and Development professionals and additional one lecturer were dispatched to different regions in the country to undertake the assessment with great emphasis on the Eastern Ethiopia. Stakeholder institutions, namely Culture and tourism bureaus at national, regional and zonal levels; hotels (both government owned and private); travel agents and tour operators; parks and museums; and academic institutions providing courses in tourism related areas were taken as target population and data were collected via questionnaire accordingly.
The core results of the need assessment are discussed as follows. The data were gathered from 39 of which 42.3% were cultural and tourism bureaus and the shares of hotels and tour operators, academic institutions and heritage collection areas were 34.6%, 15.4% and 7.7% respectively. With reference to their administrative hierarchy and location, 15.4% of the stakeholders were from the federal administrative cities, 53.8% regional capital and 30.8% zonal capital.
The data were collected from sample institutions located in AA, Dire Dawa, Harari, Oromiya, Amhara and SNNP regional states where as the greater emphasis was given to Eastern Ethiopia. Some of the major institutions that were interviewed include
Ministry of culture and Tourism; Culture and Tourism Bureaus of AA, Dire Dawa, Harari, Oromiya, Amhara and SNNP; Zonal tourism Bureaus of South Gonder, Eastern Gojam, Sidama, Bale, Eastern Shewa, East Hararghe, and West Hararghe; Academic institutions i.e. Addis Ababa University, Adama University, Gonder University, Hawasa University, Mada Walabu University, Ibex Hotel Management Training College, Lion Ethiopia, Hotel and Tourism training College, Heritage Collection areas i.e. National Mueaum, Hawasa Cultural center, Adaba Dodola Ecotourism site, Bale Mountains National Park, Sherif Museaum, Harari RSCHTB Museaums (2), Arter Ramburt; and sample hotels in Addis Ababa, Adama, Gonder,Bahir Dar, Diredawa, Chiro, Harar, Jigjiga, Hawasa and Bale Robe.
The institutions were requested to reveal how important and urgent launching tourism management training is for their institutions and the country at large. 92.3 % of the respondents responded it is very important and 7.7% important. Large number of the respondents (96.2%) also revealed that it is an urgent issue the rest 3.8% did not respond on it. For the question what they perceive about the level of tourism potentials development in the country 88.5% believed that tourism potentials developed recently to be very less. Whereas the rest 11.5% responded that they think it is developed at medium level.
They were also asked about the numbers of employee's in their institutions. The total number of workers ranged from 3 to 2083 of which the number of tourism professionals were between 0%, in many private to 11.5%, in Somali Regional State Tourism Bureau. The stakeholders were also asked to provide informations on areas that emphasis should be given on the opening of the department. Accordingly, 34.6% of them indicated Tourism Promotion and marketing, 23.1% preferred Tourism Product Development, and 3.8% Attraction Management. 38.5% of the respondents were in favor all the above listed subjects.
On the issue of the name of the department of the department, 73.1% of the stakeholders proposed "Tourism and Hotel Management", 15.4% "Tourism Development and Management", 7.7% "Tourism Management", and 3.8% "Tourism and Development" to be the name of the department to be launched.
In this curriculum, therefore, the results of the aforementioned elements and the degree nomenclature are made to comply with the result of need assessment. The name of the department was coined by making a thorough discussion by professionals and reviewers during the external review session on the name proposed by the majority of the respondents and decided to be "Tourism Development and Hotel Management",
For a country like Ethiopia, which is endowed with variety of natural and manmade tourist attractions, tourism may pave the road for the development of infrastructure which intern is a pedestal for the maturity of the whole economy as it gives a hand for the expansion of other sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, trade, transportation and others due to tourism's multidisciplinary nature. However, tourism, a very fast growing economic sector elsewhere in the world, has not yet been developed in Ethiopia and the country is not benefiting from it to the extent it deserves. It is run by archaic instinct and languishing ever since, while other countries are excelling. This is because those countries have realized its potential and developed their capacity by strategic programs.
Ethiopia in general and Eastern Ethiopia in particular have well-off in potential tourism resources but not much benefited from the sector. There is a remarkable growth in the number tourists' hotels due to different socioeconomic, political and environmental developments both locally and globally. If the tourism industry is geared and developed properly, it can serve as a supplementary (alternative) economic sector besides agriculture. However there is no any academic institution in Eastern Ethiopia working to produce skilled manpower to run the sector.
That is why Haramaya University College of social sciences and Humanities Department of History and Heritage Management has taken the program justifiable to fill the gap by training tourism professionals and possibly conduct problem solving studies and researches that could catalyze the sector.
The curriculum of the department has been designed to meet the needs of the tourism and hospitality industry and its different components (grasped via need assessment); and to contribute towards the current development policy of the country. The industry's interdisciplinary nature has been clearly covered throughout the curriculum by incorporating management, accounting, communication skills, general awareness, research methods and other business management subjects. In general the curriculum for degree program in Tourism Development and Hotel Management is developed based on the following facts:
needs-assessment and the clear relevance of the field to the socio-cultural, environmental and economic development of the country;
The intention to respond to the changing economic demands of the country and the current lack of professionals in the field of tourism and hotel who would gear the development of this vital and rapidly growing economic sector;
Taken specifically because tourism and hotel in Ethiopia need tourism professionals who will work at operational as well as managerial levels;
Ethiopia is a growing tourist destination with promising annual growth rates of tourist arrivals (4.2% per annum) that are above the world average growth, the country needs qualified personnel to make use of this opportunity;
Ethiopia is the hub of many local, national, regional and international organizations that necessitate for wonderful hotels with qualified personnel,
Tourism is expected to be an important source of income, means of poverty alleviation, and a tool to sustain the environment and provide great employment opportunities.
To produce qualified manpower that can effectively contribute in the development of the tourism and hospitality industry in Ethiopia by making use of the vast potential of the country in the sector.
To produce competent and well qualified graduates to meet the growing demand of trained personnel in the sector,
FTo produce graduates who can conduct research in the field and provide advisory services to improve the tourism sector in particular and the service industry in general,
To provide appropriate training that helps graduates to acquire the skills required to serve within the context of international standards of service industry.
To enhance and cultivate the tourism sector through appropriate training.
Graduates of Bachelor of Arts Degree in Tourism Development and Hotel Management will get detail competency (knowledge, attitude and skills) in the area of Tourism Development and Hotel Management. Generally, the degree program provides students with the opportunity to pursue career in Hospitality & Tourism industry and upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to:
Plan, develop, manage and market tourism sector services and products
Provide operational as well as managerial services in areas such as: hospitality and tourism marketing, destination development & management, travel facilitation, tour guiding & operation, national, regional & local tourism authorities,
Work in trade and industry sector as a tourism investment expert and perform public relation tasks in different tourism organizations
Deal with key issues in finance, marketing, management and other functions within the tourism industry, in innovative ways
Undertake Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) entrepreneurship activity by their own in the tourism sector,
Develop and implement an appropriate international, national and regional policies and regulations in the sector,
Undertake relevant operational and marketing research and implement the results of these studies for the advancement of the sector,
Provide short and long term trainings in the areas related to tourism,
Provide consultancy services in the tourism sector,
Will be able to work in the conservation and development of natural and manmade tourism resources,
Work in travel and tourism industries like Travel agencies, Tour operators, Event management organizations, Airlines, Cruise lines, Cargo operators, Shipping lines and other sectors of the tourism industry.
Work in several hotels as general managers, front office supervisors, head of housekeeping division, food and beverage or others sectors of the industry.
Applicants seeking admission to the Tourism Development and Hotel Management program must meet the following admission requirements:
Successful completion of preparatory schools in social science stream or comparable level of school education.
Passing mark in Ethiopian Universities' entrance examination or any other comparable examination.
Diploma in related fields and minimum of two years experience, preferably in tourism and hotel related areas.
Sponsorship or personal financial status declaration in case of adult and/or foreign students is needed.
A student who completes the three years of study successfully taking all the required courses and the minimum number of credit hours of 112 or 186 ECTs with a minimum CGPA of 2.00 will be awarded BA degree in Tourism Development and Hotel Management. No 'F', 'I' and 'NG' grade in any course and Compliance with the regulation of the University is accepted.
The Degree is named as:
In English: -"Bachelor of Arts Degree in Tourism Development and Hotel Management"
በአማርኛ:-"የአርU ባ{sር ዲግሪ በቱሪዝም ልማት እና ሆቴል ሥራ አመራር"
The quality of the program is maintained by the following measures:
– Adopt good planning,
– monitoring and evaluation of activities and academic programs
– Respecting and executing the academic calendar
– Integrity and transparency in checking answer sheets
– Adherence to academic norms in deciding the grades
– Remedial measures for academically weak students
– Continuous updating and expanding teaching resources developing staff members
– Encouraging the use of Information and Communication Technology
– Encouraging students to comply with policies and regulations of the university, as published in the college legislation and students guidebook of the office of the Registrar.
– Establishing different committees working for assuring quality.
Monitor its program through getting feedback from different stakeholders


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For several years now our teams have been quietly developing and working with a community that has swelled to millions of monthly active users globally. We've been guided by a belief that magical things are possible when technology is made approachable and accessible to those in the best position to identify transformative applications – those who work on the front lines of a business.
There is a growing community of people who have discovered the Power Platform, leveraged it to drive transformational change for their organizations and in the process completely changed the trajectory of their careers and lives.
Nick Gill, a training specialist at the American Red Cross, who with no formal IT background taught himself how to use Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow then used them to transform a process that over 650 First Aid and CPR instructors use to order training class supplies. Nick has since been promoted to Manager of Logistics for the Preparedness, Safety, and Services department for the entire country. You can learn more about Nick and his work on the PowerApps Blog.
Ashley Culmsee, a psychology student with no IT experience learned to use PowerApps and Flow. With her father she built "the universal audit app" – allowing people across many industries to perform inspections and audits. Ashley's story about how she got into building these apps is pretty amazing and inspiring. Growing up she suffered from anxiety and social phobia and in the Power Platform found an outlet and built a passion for technology. Today she works with her dad Paul Culmsee running hackathons and building Power Platform-based solutions for mining and engineering companies worldwide. Here is a blog from her dad that speaks to the impact the Power Platform has had on his daughter.
Martin Lee, was a dispatcher at AutoGlass, and built his first app to automate the process field technicians use to update their job status while out repairing chipped and broken glass on autos. As a dispatcher, Martin saw firsthand the inefficiency of their old process. In the summer of 2017, he taught himself PowerApps, built and deployed his first app into production within one month. By October 2017 he had singlehandedly deployed eight apps used by more than 1,500 technicians. Martin has since moved from his role as dispatcher to a dedicated technology role. He has since built 50 more apps and deployed them across the business to more than 3,000 employees. You can learn more on Martin by watching this video.
Brian Dang, was a third-grade teacher in Southern California who discovered PowerApps and used it to build some pretty stunning applications for his students, other teachers and for the school district. When I first met Brian we were preparing for an upcoming PowerApps technical review with Bill Gates. Knowing Bill's passion for technology and education I invited Brian to join us in the meeting to show off his great work. My colleague Sameer Bhangar interviewed Brian when he came up for that meeting. A couple weeks after this video was produced Brian moved to Redmond and joined the team at Microsoft! Over the last year he's helped thousands of others across the globe discover and master the Power Platform.
Each of these individuals is deeply engaged in the Power Platform community, helping others succeed as they have. To celebrate and recognize these champs, our Power Platform "Customer Success Team" created a set of trading cards. My growing collection hangs just inside my office door and helps me start each day focused on what really matters – the people we're empowering to achieve more.
My growing collection of Power Platform champs trading cards as of January 2019.
Meeting up with some of our Power Platform champs in July 2018.
Our vision for the Power Platform started from the recognition that data is increasingly flowing from everything, and a belief that organizations that harness their data – to gain insights then used to drive intelligent business processes – will outperform those that don't.
We also recognize there aren't enough programmers, data scientists and tech professionals to go around. So our goal was to build a platform not targeting these technology experts but for people like Nick, Ashlee, Martin and Brian – and the millions of other frontline workers who see opportunities every day to create something better than the status quo, but who've never been empowered to do anything about it.
Our guiding vision was a framework we called the "Triple-A Loop" – a closed-loop system allowing users to gain insights from data (Analyze) used to drive intelligent business processes via apps they build (Act) and processes they automate (Automate).
The Microsoft Power Platform implements this vision via three cloud-based services: Power BI, PowerApps and Flow.
Power BI is a self-service business intelligence solution that makes it easy to connect, analyze and gain insight from the data that runs your business – wherever that data may be: in the cloud, or in your own data center; in an Excel spreadsheet or SharePoint list, an Oracle database or in an SAP or Salesforce application; or in any of the hundreds of other systems with built-in support by the Power Platform. Power BI was the first Power Platform service delivered, entering preview in January 2015.
In just four short years, Power BI has been adopted by tens of thousands of companies and millions of users. Every single month the service has been updated and improved.
Some of the service metrics today are just stunning: Power BI is available in 43 languages and used across 18,000 cities spanning the globe. Nearly 10 petabytes of data are uploaded to the service each month with more than 10 million report and dashboard queries executed against that data every hour (!) on behalf of users.
But insights without action are little more than idle chatter, so, while we were busy pushing toward general availability with Power BI we were simultaneously creating the services that would make Power BI's insights actionable: PowerApps and Flow.
PowerApps is a "citizen application development platform" – allowing anyone to build web and mobile applications without writing code. The natural connection between Power BI and PowerApps makes it effortless to put insights in the hands of maintenance workers, teachers, miners and others on the frontline, in tailored and often task-specific applications that supercharge their productivity and make their work perhaps a little less tedious.
Like Power BI, PowerApps connects to hundreds of business systems and databases, making it easy to connect workers with the existing processes and data that makes the business tick. And all the data captured in PowerApps can make its way right back to those very systems for further analysis in Power BI creating a closed-loop process for continuous improvement. Additionally, PowerApps comes with a built-in, fully-managed, enterprise-grade datastore called the Common Data Service (CDS) for those applications that generate data not destined for a legacy system – and Power BI and Flow have deep connections to CDS making it that much easier to get even more value from data stored there.
I can remember like it was yesterday a meeting that really cemented for me that PowerApps was going to be a game-changer for our customers. In the Spring of 2016 I met with Integrated Power Services – a company that traces its roots to 1904. Sitting in a conference room in building 44 on our main campus IPS told me how they'd built a PowerApp that transformed their core business process – inspecting and repairing large electric motors and generators from a variety of manufacturers. Turns out there's not "an app for that" and before PowerApps the technical hurdles to build such a solution put it far beyond their reach.
I've never had a customer so completely energized and excited by one of my products. For them PowerApps was like magic – they'd transformed an error-prone collection of manual processes into a tablet-based app their repair professionals could use to fix motors faster, with fewer errors and while keeping their customers informed of the process in a way never before possible. And they built the app right on the shop floor at one of their depots, with the repair personnel who now use the app.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is garnering a lot of interest and attention in the market – with pure-play vendors raising enormous sums of money at astronomical valuations. By automating simple tasks, RPA solutions promise to lower costs while reducing errors. Microsoft Flow is an intelligent process automation service that goes beyond simple task automation, allowing non-technical users to automate complex business processes and workflows without a complex IT deployment.
Through a simple and intuitive interface, users can create automated workflows that can be triggered by insights from Power BI, leveraged via apps built with PowerApps (e.g. a user action in a PowerApp might kick off an approval process) and integrated with events from any of the hundreds of systems the Power Platform natively supports. The workflows run completely in the cloud and are fully managed and secured by Microsoft.
Power BI, PowerApps and Flow each represents best-of-breed solutions in their individual categories, but their combination as the Power Platform is a game-changer without equal for our customers.
Power BI unlocks insights and intelligence, PowerApps converts that intelligence into action through transformative applications built in record time, and Flow makes business process orchestration an easy point and click exercise … with further feedback to Power BI creating a powerful system of continuous improvement.
Putting this power to "analyze, act and automate" in the hands of individuals who know their business best, with built-in connectors to all the systems and sources of data in an organization, creates previously unimaginable transformation opportunities for our customers.
SNCF operates France's national rail service and is a global leader in passenger and freight transport services. With 270,000 employees spread across 120 countries, it aims to become the benchmark for mobility and logistics solutions in France and worldwide. SNCF is a great example of a customer that has gone "all in" with the Power Platform. As with many customers, initial adoption was grassroots in nature – starting in some places with Power BI and others with PowerApps. They quickly realized the potential the platform represented for their business and has built a company-wide center of excellence to educate, train and support the thousands of employees now using the platform to help shape the future of SNCF.
Here is a short video that highlights the great work they're doing at SNCF.
It has been an exciting journey for all of us on the team. In so many ways we are just getting started.
As we look forward to the year ahead, we are planning to deliver some really special product developments. These will come together across all of our offerings – from Dynamics 365 to the Power Platform – as part of our April 2019 release. You can get ready for that now by checking out the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, April 2019 release notes.
I would also welcome you to join us for our Virtual Launch Event in April, where we may have a few added surprises.
And lastly, to our community of makers and creators – thank you for being on this journey with us. Your dedication, energy, and ingenuity inspire me. Your passion literally has me running up the stairs every day when I come to work. Thank you. Hope to see you all soon!


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jj n° 2 är jj's första studioalbum. Albumet släpptes den 1 juli 2009 och blev hyllat av flera internationella kritiker. Bland annat fick albumet utmärkelsen Best New Music och betyget 8.6 av 10, av den Chicagobaserade internetpublikation Pitchfork Media. Albumen blev sedan utnämnt till det 35:e bästa albumet från 2009 av Pitchfork.

jj n° 2 blev även mycket kritikerrosat i hemlandet Sverige, bland annat fick skivan betyget 4 av 5 av några av Sveriges största tidningar i form av Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet, Göteborgs-Posten och Sydsvenskan. Albumet blev även nominerat till årets pop på 2010 års Manifestgala.

En vinylversion av skivan släpptes i december 2009 under namnet jj n° 2.1. Denna version innehöll bonuslåten "Pure Shores".

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 "Things Will Never Be the Same Again" - 3:34
 "From Africa to Málaga" - 2:50
 "Ecstasy" - 3:33
 "Are You Still in Vallda?" - 2:34
 "My Love" - 3:12
 "Intermezzo" - 2:48
 "My Hopes & Dreams" - 2:43
 "Masterplan" - 2:48
 "Me & Dean" - 2:42

 Vinylutgåvan innehåller även bonuslåten "Pure Shores".

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Album utgivna på Secretly Canadian

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Who pays for the tracking device on ultrasound?
IMA, IRIA and a few Ultrasound centers have challenged the order dated 06.05.2015 passed by the Secretary/Director, State Appropriate Authority P.C & P.N.D.T., MP, whereby the District Appropriate Authority/District Collectors have been directed to make sure that a Tracker Device (Active Tracker/Silent Observer) is installed on all Ultrasonography Machines in the district within a period of one month. It has also been directed that for any new registration as well as for renewal of registration of all Ultrasonography machines, installation of the aforementioned Tracker Device shall be mandatory. In addition to this it has been further directed that the entire installation expenditure will be borne by the center.
The MP high court at Jabalpur gave an interim relief. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners submitted that in some sonography centers at Indore tracker device has been installed on the expenditure of the State Government However, by the impugned order the petitioners are being asked to install the tracker device on their own expenses.
Taking into account the submission made by learned senior counsel for the petitioners and in the facts of the case, the high court directed that till next date of hearing no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioners in pursuance of the impugned order dated 6.5.2015. However, the State Government would be at liberty to install the tracker device on its own expenses, if so advised.
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Dr SS Agarwal - National President IMA and Padma Shri Awardee Dr KK Aggarwal, Honorary Secretary General, IMA and President HCFI said, "If your sweetheart has diabetes or prediabetes, celebrate Valentine's Day without chocolates or a fancy restaurant meal."


Frances is back in school and her friend Cynthia is standing by her side but what will Diana have to say to them both? Meanwhile, Tobi and Leila's relationship is rocky after she stumbles across rumours about him and Faa. Watch & Enjoy!


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Charles Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas
By Alexander Green
Originally posted December 23, 2017
A couple of years ago, my family, some friends and I attended a performance of A Christmas Carol at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia.
It was superb. The kids particularly enjoyed it and were surprised to learn that the author – Charles Dickens – is the man most responsible for the modern celebration of the season. This is a story that deserves to be more widely known…
Dickens is one of the greatest writers in the English language. He published 20 novels in his lifetime. None has ever gone out of print.
Yet in 1843, Dickens' popularity was at a low, his critical reputation in tatters, his bank account overdrawn. Facing bankruptcy, he considered giving up writing fiction altogether.
In a feverish six-week period before Christmas, however, he wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publishers turned it down. So using his meager savings, Dickens put it out himself. It was an exercise in vanity publishing – and the author told friends it might be the end of his career as a novelist.
Yet the publication of A Christmas Carol caused an immediate sensation, selling out the first printing – several thousand copies – in four days. A second printing sold out before the new year… and then a third. Widespread theatrical adaptations spread the story to an exponentially larger audience still.
And it wasn't just a commercial success. Even Dickens' chief rival and foremost critic, William Makepeace Thackeray, bowed his head before the power of the book: "The last two people I heard speak of it were women; neither knew the other, or the author, and both said, by way of criticism, 'God bless him!' What a feeling this is for a writer to be able to inspire, and what a reward to reap!"
Today we all know the tale of tight-fisted Scrooge – "Bah! Humbug!" – and his dramatic change of heart after being visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
But A Christmas Carol didn't just restore Dickens' reputation and financial health. It also breathed new life into what was then a second-tier holiday that had fallen into disfavor.
As Les Standiford notes, in early 19th century England, the Christmas holiday "was a relatively minor affair that ranked far below Easter, causing little more stir than Memorial Day or St. George's Day today. In the eyes of the relatively enlightened Anglican Church, moreover, the entire enterprise smacked vaguely of paganism, and were there Puritans still around, acknowledging the holiday might have landed one in the stocks."
The date of Christmas itself is an arbitrary one, of course. There is no reference in the Gospels to the birth of Jesus taking place on December 25, or in any specific month. When Luke says, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior," there isn't the slightest indication when that was.
And while the day was marked on Christian calendars, celebrations were muted. That changed when A Christmas Carol became an instant smash, stirring English men and women to both celebrate the holiday and remember the plight of the less fortunate. This was exactly the author's intent.
Dickens grew up in poverty and was forced into child labor. (His father, a naval pay clerk who struggled to meet his obligations, was thrown into debtors prison.) Yet despite these handicaps, Dickens educated himself, worked diligently and rose to international prominence as a master writer and storyteller.
He was a great believer in self-determination and, in particular, the transformative power of education. With learning, he said, a man "acquires for himself that property of soul which has in all times upheld struggling men of every degree."
Yet in the London of Dickens' day, only one child in three attended school. Some worked in shops, others in factories. Still others resorted to theft or prostitution to live. Dickens was determined to expose their plight. A Christmas Carol, in particular, is a bald-faced parable, something few novelists attempt… and even fewer successfully execute.
Dickens said his novels were for the edification of his audience. His goal was not just to entertain, but to enlighten. And A Christmas Carol was designed to deliver "a sledgehammer blow" on behalf of the poor and less fortunate.
It worked. Scrooge – a character as well-known as any in fiction – is now synonymous with "miser." Yet through his remarkable transformation, the author reminds us that it is never too late to change, to free ourselves from selfish preoccupations.
Dickens' biographer Peter Ackroyd and other commentators have credited the novelist with single-handedly creating the modern Christmas holiday… no, not the contemporary orgy of shopping, spending and ostentatious display. In A Christmas Carol, there are no Christmas trees, gaudy decorations or – apart from "the big prize turkey" at the end – any presents at all. The only gifts exchanged are love, friendship and goodwill.
In one small book, Dickens changed the culture, inspired his contemporaries and helped restore a holiday they were eager to revive.
More than a century and a half later, A Christmas Carol is still a tonic for our spirits – and an annual reminder of the benefits of friendship, charity and celebration.
P.S. A new feature film, The Man Who Invented Christmas, is now playing nationwide and – while I haven't seen it yet – is getting excellent reviews.
About Alexander Green
An expert on momentum investing, value investing and investing based on insider activity, Alex worked as an investment advisor, research analyst and portfolio manager on Wall Street for 16 years. He now runs the wildly successful Oxford Communiqué, ranked as one of the top investment newsletters by Hulbert Digest for more than a decade. He is also the author of four national best-sellers: The Gone Fishin' Portfolio, The Secret of Shelter Island, Beyond Wealth and An Embarrassment of Riches. He shares his wisdom in his free daily e-letter, Liberty Through Wealth.
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