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In late 2009, the South West Development Commission suggested the Shire of Manjimup may benefit from developing a Sister City relationship with the Jiashan County. Jiashan County is a county of Zhejiang Province, China, administered by the prefecture-level city Jiaxing. Jiashan is nicknamed "The Land of Fish and Rice". It is 80 kilometres west of Shanghai.
The logic behind the sister city relationship between the Shire of Manjimup and Jiashan County is supported by a pre-existing State and Regional relationship as illustrated below:
Australia People's Republic of China 1972 Diplomatic ties established
Western Australia Zhejiang Province 1987 Sister-state relationship established
City of Bunbury Jiaxing 2000 Sister-city relationship established
Shire of Manjimup Jiashan County 2012 Sister-city relationship established
In December 2009, the Manjimup Shire President, Mr Wade DeCampo, wrote to Jiashan County expressing the desire to explore the opportunity of a Sister City relationship. Since that first contact there have been a number of visits with the Shire of Manjimup hosting delegations from China and Manjimup delegations visiting China.
At its meeting on 26 July 2012, Council considered the progression to a formal Sister City relationship with Jiashan and resolved:
1. Agree to formalise the Sister City relationship with Jiashan County; and
2. Instruct the Chief Executive Officer to endeavour to coordinate the formal signing of the Sister City Relationship with Jiashan County at the 25 year Western Australian / Chinese relationship celebration to be held in Perth later this year.

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Your Music Playlist May Reveal if You're a Psychopath or Not
Written by Joanie Faletto
A secret may be lurking deep within your Spotify playlists. And we're not talking about "Smooth" by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas popping up more than it should. According to a team of researchers, some of your favorite songs could reveal whether or not you're a psychopath. Be careful which tunes you tap your toe to ...
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Playlist of the Lambs
In preliminary and unpublished research, a team from New York University found that, basically, Hannibal Lecter's love of classical music misses the mark (no word — yet — on the accuracy of Patrick Bateman's penchant for Huey Lewis and the News). For the study, 200 people listened to 260 songs. Those with the highest psychopath scores were some of the biggest fans of Blackstreet's "No Diggity." The most psychotic of the bunch also loved Eminem's incomparable "Lose Yourself." (Both are objectively really wonderful songs, thankyouverymuch.) Those with the lower psychopathy scores really dug The Knack's "My Sharona" and Sia's "Titanium."
Before you go snooping through your ex-boyfriend's most-played tracks on Spotify for "No Diggity" and "Lose Yourself," other songs had a greater predictive power of psychopathy. Research lead Pascal Wallisch didn't disclose the other songs for fear that it might skew the results of future tests. On second thought, maybe not the most comforting thought.
Psycho Screen
Kevin Dutton, an Oxford psychologist and author of "The Wisdom of Psychopaths," has been gathering data on musical tastes and other preferences for a psychopath study with UK broadcasting company Channel 4. More than three million people have responded to his online surveys so far. Though these surveys aren't perfect, the results suggest psychopaths prefer rap music to classical and jazz. The people with psychopathic traits are more likely to read the Financial Times than other newspapers. (Okay, major Patrick Bateman alert there.)
But take this information with a grain of salt. Dutton's research isn't without its flaws, and Wallisch's study is very preliminary. Wallisch plans to expand on this study to investigate whether the link between musical tastes and psychopathy really does exist. And if it does, he'd like to be able to understand how groups of songs can predict potential psychopaths.
"The beauty of this idea is you can use it as a screening test without consent, cooperation or maybe even the knowledge of the people involved," Wallisch told The Guardian. "The ethics of this are very hairy, but so is having a psychopath as a boss, and so is having a psychopath in any position of power." No diggity, no doubt.
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Major Progress Being Made During MSM Blackout and the Desperation Smear Campaign against Sidney Powell...
'tHey folks! There's a TON of stuff going on in reference to the stolen Presidential Election results so I'll get down to business. As you already know, the MSM is still standing firm on their disinformation campaign and media blackout of President Trump's election fraud lawsuits. In my most recent blogs, I've written about how successful Trump's legal team has been on the legal front. In Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court has granted an expedited review of Trump's appeal. For those who don't know, PA is a key swing state that counts for 29 electoral votes toward the Presidency. The voting corruption that was discovered in Philly and other parts of the state has been highlighted in recent articles and press conferences. Another piece of good news for the Trump team is that the Circuit Court assignments have been made in the Supreme Court.
The Associate Justices will preside over certain circuits in key swing state areas and will make sure that Trump's lawsuits will be elevated and processed without any obstruction from other crooked politicians and judges. Because the SCOTUS has decided to dictate the Circuit Court, Trump's legal team will have an easier time getting the ball across the goal line. Justices Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are all in Trump's corner and will ensure that he retains the Presidency. Alito is overseeing the Circuit Courts in PA and has already forced the voting offices to separate all the ILLEGAL votes from the legitimate ones. This action should automatically gives Trump the lead/victory in Pennsylvania. Justice Thomas is obviously licking his chops because Jim Crow Joe Biden lead the attack against him during his Supreme Court confirmation back in 1991. Thomas has been patiently waiting for the opportunity to seek his revenge by destroying Biden's chance of stealing the Presidency. Kavanaugh and Barrett were confirmed by Trump and will gladly put the legal hammer down on their respective circuits, ensuring that Trump gets re-elected. Because Kavanaugh and Barrett also experienced similar Democratic-inspired roadblocks during their SCOTUS confirmations, they would love nothing more than to stick it to the demonic Dems and send them into political oblivion.
A couple of days ago, one of Trump's lawyers released a statement about how Sidney Powell was not an official member of the Trump legal team. This statement was very misconstrued by many pro-Trump supporters. The MSM jumped all over it, thinking that Powell got kicked out of Trump's legal circle. What this statement REALLY meant was that Powell was operating independently and is offering her legal services to the President out of pure patriotism. Powell's invaluable experience as a federal prosecutor and determination to find the truth has paid huge dividends for Trump's legal team so far. Powell's ability to expose the voter fraud that was accomplished via the corrupted Dominion software was a prime example of her diligence and dedication to American liberty. The fact that the talking heads are grasping for straws after reading this nothing-burger from the Trump legal team lets you know that the elites are losing their grip on the false narrative. Everybody outside the U.S. knows that JCJ (Jim Crow Joe) STOLE the presidential election. Unfortunately, there's a good number of sheep within America that's still believe the lie about JCJ being President-Elect. At the end of the day, their willful ignorance of the facts won't matter. I truly believe that Trump's legal team and the SCOTUS will rectify this wrong so they can re-elect Trump and delay the scheduled destruction of the U.S. for another four years.
Trump's Legal Victories Destroys Media Blackout and Fox News , More Corona Lockdowns, and The Upcoming Million MAGA March...
C'mon...did you seriously think that Trump (a.k.a. PMC) wasn't going to bring the legal hammer down on Jim Crow Joe and Crooked Kamala after their bullshit coronation?!?! My point exactly! Trump's lawsuits are already paying of in PA, GA, AZ, MI, and WI. In PA the state legislators will nullify any votes received after the 8pm Election Day deadline, which would automatically give PA back in Trump's hands. There a recount underway in GA, and WI. Both of which will eventually go The Donald's way. The lawsuits filed in Michigan will eventually help bring the state back into the Trump column as well. These four states alone will give PMC the Presidency.
The way the media was flat out ignoring this amateur-hour type heist of the election was an absolute disgrace. Fixed (Fox) News was supposed to be a cheerleader for Trump, but they ended up selling him out when everybody at Fox HQ was forced to toe the Liberal line. However, once the truth about the nationwide voter fraud began to spread like the Walker virus, people started to abandon the MSM outlets by the millions. Fox News took the hugest hit with a HUGE drop in ratings over the weekend. Once they turned their back on their valuable conservative base. Their loyal viewers decided to return the favor. Once Trump gets re-elected, I'm confident that he'll repay his once beloved Fox News with a dagger right between their shoulder blades.
Somehow, the number of so-called Coronavirus pandemic continues to rise even though damn near everyone is mandated to wear a mask. Predictably, many American states and major cities are implementing lockdowns over the weekend in order to curb the spread. Of course this is just another martial law dry run that their pushing while the Election is slowly being rectified for The Donald. As I stated in my Video of the Day, Pfizer plans on slaughtering thousands of people with their diabolical cocktail that's masquerading as a vaccine. This is why it's imperative that Trump gets re-elected so that he can pull the plug on this NWO depopulation B.S.
Yesterday, I heard they the grapevine that there will be a Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C. this Saturday. This is obviously a strategic counterattack/response against the Liberal coup that's is collapsing on itself as you read this blog. I'm sure that these Trump loyalists will be on their best behavior as the Battleground states recounts are underway. They also know that the re-election of The Donald is a mere formality thanks to the success of his lawsuits and the hard work of truth seekers in the alternative media. Well folks, I gotta roll. Stay safe and vigilant out there!!
The Upcoming Invasion of the U.S begins in 3..2..1...
For years I've wrote about how the U.S. will get invaded by foreign entities once it officially collapses. I've always thought that the invaders would be China and Russia. However, I've recently ran across and article about how Jim Crow Joe plans on flooding ELEVEN MILLION immigrants into the U.S. from all over the world. Half a million of them will be from India! While gullible Americans continue to dance in the streets and celebrate the illegal election of JCJ and Crooked Kamala, they have no idea that millions of immigrants will be taking their jobs and other benefits away from them ASAP. Of course, this huge influx of immigrants will cause social unrest and economic instability that will eventually bring the U.S. to it's knees...just like the elites planned it. Stay safe and vigilant out there!!
Election Theft 101 and New Developments Behind the Scenes...
Hey everybody! I'm going to cut to the chase and get down to business. The bullshit that the American people and the rest of the world has been witnessing for the past four days has been pure fabrication and theater. The last time I checked, it was the Electoral College that officially elects the next candidate, NOT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! Yet, when I was out and about earlier today, I heard through the grapevine that Creepy Joe Biden and his harlot VP Kamala Harris called the election even though there are several battleground states that are being investigated for voter fraud. Many Americans are naive enough to believe there's absolutely NO WAY a presidential election can be stolen, even though the same shit happened 20 years ago with George Bush and Al Gore. On Election Day, Trump was down around 50-60 electoral votes around 9pm EST. However, he was leading in key battleground states (Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan.) As the news coverage slowly drifted into the late hours, the Biden camp demanded that the vote counting stop. This should have been a red flag by itself. However, the next morning Biden miraculously waged a furious comeback in the battleground stated in which he was trailing. By Friday, Biden managed to actually take the lead in PA, GA, NC and MI. Trump a.k.a. PMC did the smart thing and began filing lawsuits in every state in which he suddenly trailed. Yesterday, I actually saw on the news people voting in Nevada! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that it was illegal to vote and submit ballots AFTER ELECTION DAY! I also found out yesterday that Philadelphia has a vast history of voter fraud and corruption. In Michigan and Georgia, there were reports of voter ballots being cast illegally.
After seeing this skullduggery, I already knew that the fix was in. Trump did his due diligence by inserting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court as a backup contingency. However, Trump's legal battle may not even get that far thanks to the PTBs interference. The million dollar question that needs to be asked is: Why did the elites decide to roll with Creepy Joe and Crooked Kamala instead of the status quo? As I stated earlier, the U.S. government's number one agenda is to destabilize and subjugate the Black population no matter the cost. The Boule traitors made sure that they keep an extra foot on Black folks necks during the election for good measure. Once the Black population (and the Black Messiah) is subdued, the PTBs have the green light to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants which will accelerate the U.S. demise. Many have theorized that once Jim Crow Joe inevitably succumbs to his health, Kamala will get sworn in and officially let the barbarians through the gate. I can definitely see this scenario playing out. In the meanwhile, I fully expect for minor skirmishes/race wars to erupt throughout the U.S. up until Inauguration Day. I highly advice for all Americans to keep their heads on a swivel from here on out because it's about to get really ugly as this country turns into a Banana Republic sweatshop. Stay safe and vigilant out there!


The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mom of six, has taken her relations east in 1912 to start a brand new lifestyles. Her son, Ralph, then 13, remembers how the Moodys live to tell the tale that first bleak wintry weather in a Massachusetts city. funds and customers are missing, yet now not so religion and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges totally as a personality during this ebook, and Ralph, now not referred to as "Little Britches," comes into his personal. The family's run-ins with authority and with damaged furnaces in iciness are evocative of an entire and hot kin existence.
Mary Emma & Company keeps the Moody saga that all started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs via Man of the Family and The domestic Ranch. some of these titles were reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home, during which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts city for his grandfather's farm in Maine.
"Some characters turn into your mates for all times. That's the way it used to be for me with Betsy-Tacy. " —Judy Blume"I am really definite that my self reliant, high-spirited grandmother should have had a youth just like Betsy Ray's…. As I learn. .. I felt that i used to be having an unforeseen and welcome peek into Granny's adolescence.
Raymond DeCapite's moment released novel, A misplaced King, has been defined via Kirkus stories as a "small masterpiece, so distinctive in spirit and elegance. " If the temper of the arrival of Fabrizze is joyous, that of A misplaced King is somber. each one of DeCapite's novels is unique in its personal method, maybe encouraged through assorted moods.
During this interesting new assortment through longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert unusual and mysterious twists into differently mundane middle-class situations. With superb intelligence and mind's eye, those compact, revelatory poems exhibit us what's attainable once we jettison permitted units of concept for ways which are stranger, and masses more true.


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Psychology>Counseling Psychology>Career Counseling>Career Construction Theory
Career Construction Theory
The global economy of the 21st century with its digitalization and worker migration poses new questions about career, especially the question of how individuals can negotiate a lifetime of job changes without losing their sense of self and social identity. Career construction theory responds to the needs of today's mobile workers who may feel fragmented and confused as they encounter the restructuring of occupations and transformation of the labor force. The theory's response asserts that individuals build their careers by imposing meaning on vocational behavior. From a constructionist viewpoint, career denotes a moving perspective that imposes personal meaning on past memories, present experiences, and future aspirations by patterning them into a life theme. It is the meaning contained in these biographical themes that will equip individuals to adapt to the social changes that are playing out in their work lives. This personal meaning replaces the holding environment once provided by organizations that contained the task of self-integration as it cared for, protected, and interpreted experiences to its employees. Today, it is the life story that holds the individual together and provides a biographical bridge with which to cross from one job to the next job.
Using social constructionism as a metatheory, construction theory views careers from a contextual perspective that sees people as self-organizing, self-regulating, and self-defining. Relying on its social constructionist epistemology, the theory reconceptualizes both vocational personality types and vocational tasks. It interprets personality types as processes that have possibilities, not realities that predict the future. It views developmental tasks as social expectations. Career construction theory then uses the concept of life themes to weave together its conceptualizations of vocational personality and career adaptability into a comprehensive theory of both vocational behavior and career counseling. Stated succinctly, the theory holds that individuals construct their careers by using life themes to integrate the self-organization of personality and the self-extension of career adaptation into a self-defining whole that animates work, directs occupational choice, and shapes vocational adjustment.
Vocational Personality
Career construction theory defines vocational personality as the constellation of an individual's career-related abilities, needs, values, and interests. The theory discusses personality using the nomenclature and framework of Holland's RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) types because it offers a widely used language for describing the personological results of an individual's efforts at self-organization of his or her skills, interests, and abilities. While adopting Holland's language to articulate accounts of personalities and occupations, career construction theory reminds counselors and researchers that the traits constituting RIASEC types are completely decontextualized and quite abstract. It is easy to forget that the traits, especially when denoted with nouns rather than verbs, are really just strategies for adapting. They are dynamic processes that present possibilities, and they should not be reified into realist tools for predicting the future.
Career-related abilities, interests, and values are relational phenomena that reflect socially constituted meanings and categories that should not be considered as anything more than similarities. Therefore, career construction theory asserts that vocational personality types and occupational interests are simply resemblances to socially constructed clusters of attitudes and skills. They have no reality or truth value outside themselves because they depend on the social constructions of time, place, and culture that support them. While vocational personality deals with this self-organization, the second component of career construction theory, namely career adaptability, deals with self-regulation and self-extension of personality into the social environment.
Career Adaptability
Career construction theory conceptualizes development as driven by adaptation to an environment and integration into the community. From this perspective, an occupation is a mechanism of social integration, one that offers a strategy for sustaining oneself in society. Careers are constructed by adaptive strategies that implement an individual's personality in an occupational role. This adaptation brings inner needs and outer opportunities into harmony, with the harmonics of a good fit amplifying in present activity the individual's past preoccupations and future aspirations. Adaptation involves adjusting to occupational changes that include mastering vocational development tasks, dealing with work traumas, and negotiating job transitions. Career construction theory views adaptation to these changes as fostered by five principal types of coping behaviors: orientation, exploration, establishment, management, and disengagement. These constructive activities form a cycle of adaptation that is periodically repeated as the individual navigates new transitions.
Career adaptability denotes an individual's readiness and resources for handling current and anticipated tasks, transitions, and traumas in his or her occupational roles that to some degree large or small alter his or her social integration. The adaptability dimensions of readiness and resources shape self-extension into the social environment because they condition the actual coping behaviors that constitute orientation, exploration, establishment, management, and disengagement. They function as self-regulation strategies that govern how individuals engage the developmental tasks imposed by the communities with whom they co-construct their careers.
In considering the dimensions of psychosocial adaptability, career construction theory highlights a set of specific attitudes, beliefs, and competencies— the ABCs of career construction—that regulate the coping behaviors for implementing vocational self-concepts into occupational roles. The ABCs are grouped into four dimensions of adaptability: concern, control, curiosity, and confidence. According to this scheme, the adaptive individual is conceptualized as (a) becoming concerned about the vocational future, (b) increasing control over that future, (c) displaying curiosity by exploring possible selves and future scenarios, and (d) strengthening the confidence to pursue one's aspirations.
Life Themes
The self-organization of personality and its adaptive self-extension into the community produces a self-defining story. The essential meaning of career and the dynamics of its construction are revealed in these self-defining stories about the tasks, transitions, and traumas an individual has faced. Unlike the RIASEC types and adaptability dimensions, career stories fully contextualize the self in time, place, and role and express the uniqueness of an individual. Furthermore, the separate career stories told by an individual are unified by integrative themes that make whole the individual's complex and contradictory experiences by inscribing them with a meaningful coherence and long-term continuity. The theme does not summarize past experiences; rather, it inscribes them with a sense of purpose that provides meaningful coherence and long-term continuity.
Stories are accounts that constitute the self. People talk themselves into existence as they describe what they like and what they are like. From this perspective on the self, occupational preferences express self-conceptualizations in vocational terminology. Accordingly, entering an occupation is viewed as an attempt to implement a self-concept and the work itself manifests the self-concept, giving it substance and story. Thus work provides a context for human development and an important location in each individual's life, a place that matters.
In listening for the theme in career stories, counselors can become disoriented by the numerous particulars of a life. To prevent this confusion, career construction theory suggests that career practitioners and researchers concentrate on the motif, or controlling passion, that arranges the separate stories into a coherent whole. Arranging the actions and incidents randomly portrayed in career stories into a plot can be done in many ways. Career construction theory proposes for this purpose using the narrative paradigm to organize biographical thinking. This perspective for understanding a story and illuminating a life highlights the challenge of the client's life, one that he or she cannot ignore or go around. Career construction theory, applying its narrative paradigm, assumes that the archetypal theme of career construction involves using work to turn preoccupation into occupation, thereby resolving the challenge. Simply stated, careers are constructed as individuals, using adaptability coping strategies, turn their personal preoccupations into public occupations. The researcher or counselor listens to the stories to learn how the individual has used work to turn a personal symptom into a public strength and then even into a social contribution. Using the narrative paradigm as a biographical organizer enables the listener to draw out the silk thread of a life theme from the cocoon of autobiographical stories.
Counseling for Career Construction
Counseling for career construction begins with an interview that poses a uniform set of questions to a client. The Career Style Interview elicits self-defining stories that enable counselors to identify and appreciate the thematic unity in a client's life. In addition to revealing the life theme that threads through the client's life, data from a Career Style Interview also manifest the client's vocational personality and substantiate adaptive strategies. Responding to the interview questions enables a client to hear his or her own story in community. The counselor helps clients to increase the narratability of their stories and to relate their life themes to the choices that they must now make. In discussing the alternative choices and how each one might advance the client's story, the counselor retells the story in a manner designed to increase the client's career adaptability, consider what is at stake, and identify occupations that can be used to write the next chapter in their story. Reflecting on and retelling their stories encourage clients to understand how they can use work to become more whole and participate fully in a work role that matters to both them and their community.
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Savickas, M. L. (1989). Career-style assessment and counseling. In T. Sweeney (Ed.), Adlerian counseling: A practical approach for a new decade (3rd ed., pp. 289-320). Muncie, IN: Accelerated Development Press.
Savickas, M. L. (2005). The theory and practice of career construction. In S. D. Brown & R.W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work (pp. 42-70). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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For as long as I have remembered, I have wanted a colorful door. I remember when we replaced the door at my house I begged my mom to make it purple, or yellow, or even a bluish-gray to which she replied that would be against the neighborhood zoning. And I believe her, where I live, there are no colorful doors.
So I centered my efforts elsewhere. I began to explore online photography projects that focused on capturing everyday life, particularly colorful doors. It was then that I stumbled upon Madeira, Portugal. On this island, everyone covers there door in not only color, but beautiful art.
These doors add character to a home. Whether they are abstract, detailed, or simply a solid color, they make me want to know more about what happens behind them. They add a sense of community and creativity.
I think that this is particularly akin to what we are learning in class because they are often an abstract representation of the owner's or the home's personality. For example, in Madeira, there is one door that has a picture of a mermaid on a swing on it. Obviously, this is not a realistic representation of what is going on inside, but it captures a sense of mysticism and nautical spirit that I am sure the homeowner has.
I find inspiration in these doors because they show us how something so simple, something we see everyday, can be made into something beautiful, inspiring, and engaging.


I have been in Europe for 10 days now and to think I have 20 to go is kind of mind-numbing. The racing has been super and the coverage has been great, but I am most excited about the Tour being one-third over. The Tour's first week usually takes longer than the next two weeks, but with all the interesting racing, the first week has flown by pretty quickly.
I am lucky to be a part of the TREK family as they scored me a bike that I have ridden three times. The bike is wicked, and my rides have been great. I rode to the town of Gueda—that's right, the place where some of the world's best cheese comes from. I was also able to climb a pretty cool Belgian Ardennes climb that I will never forget. It was raining, wet, and the fans were awesome. My most favorite ride by far was my ride along the most amazing stretch of French cycling history: the pave of the Arenberg Forest. There was something that sent chills down my spine as I bounced along. I thought it was one of the highlights of any tour experience I have ever had.
Arenberg is a calm place that only awakens a couple times a year. It is a place that is hidden deep in the French countryside but as soon as your wheel hits the first stone you get an energy and aura that you will never forget. The amount of history that surrounds those cobbles pours out of the hardened rocks. I can't explain in words the mystical vibe that fills that road.
I look forward to getting out a bit more in the next couple of weeks, but it requires me to be up at 5 a.m. and on my bike by 5:30 a.m. so I can get back in time to leave for the start. The starts have been easy, the riders cooperative and the drives pretty uneventful. So far so good. I know things will change, but we will take it day by day. I continue to give 100 percent for Versus, but I still struggle way more than I should with asking questions and doing my stand-ups. Still, I have to tell you, it's is a rush though.
I miss my family and wish that they will try and come over one of these years. The ratings are up and the bosses are happy. I know you had hoped for more craziness, but I think we count our blessings and know for sure that there will be some rough points in this journey and I will be sure to share them with you.
On a funny note…I sweat like an absolute pig all day here. It's hot, and the shirts are nylon. There is constant pressure that it even worse at the Tour. My body pours sweat non-stop, and if my shirt is soaked, it is tough to do a spot on TV. I am constantly pouring baby powder down my shirt, switching shirts, wiping myself down with something or trying to find a way to stay cool before I go on the air. I ran out of things to wipe myself down with during a piece today and I used our stuffed animal keychain to wipe my forehead and chest. We had to ring out the stuffed white bear twice before we finally got the shot!
In summary, I continue to enjoy my time in the commentary booth with Roll and Hummer even if it is just 20 minutes a day. The crew is nice, the food is OK, the hotels are great, and the bike racing, of course, is brilliant. Learning lots, having fun and missing my wife and kids like mad.
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Don't stress about the standups, Robbie. The best part of the tour coverage is watching you chat with the racers like you're sitting on your back porch, enjoying a post-race beer.
More interviews with Horner would be great-his spots on velonews are insightful.


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	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/android"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/android/adb"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/android/apk"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/device"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/process"
	"github.com/google/gapid/core/os/shell"
	"github.com/google/gapid/gapii/client"
)

type traceVerb struct{ TraceFlags }

func init() {
	verb := &traceVerb{}
	app.AddVerb(&app.Verb{
		Name:      "trace",
		ShortHelp: "Captures a gfx trace from an application",
		Auto:      verb,
	})
}

func (verb *traceVerb) Run(ctx context.Context, flags flag.FlagSet) error {
	options := client.Options{
		ObserveFrameFrequency: uint32(verb.Observe.Frames),
		ObserveDrawFrequency:  uint32(verb.Observe.Draws),
		StartFrame:            uint32(verb.Start.At.Frame),
		FramesToCapture:       uint32(verb.Capture.Frames),
		APK:                   verb.APK,
	}

	if verb.Disable.PCS {
		options.Flags |= client.DisablePrecompiledShaders
	}
	if verb.Record.Errors {
		options.Flags |= client.RecordErrorState
	}
	if verb.Start.Defer {
		options.Flags |= client.DeferStart
	}

	if !verb.Local.App.IsEmpty() {
		cleanup, err := verb.startLocalApp(ctx)
		defer func() { cleanup() }()
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	if verb.Local.Port != 0 {
		return verb.captureLocal(ctx, flags, verb.Local.Port, options)
	}

	return verb.captureADB(ctx, flags, options)
}

func (verb *traceVerb) startLocalApp(ctx context.Context) (func(), error) {
	// Run the local application with VK_LAYER_PATH, VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS,
	// VK_DEVICE_LAYERS and LD_PRELOAD set to correct values to load the spy
	// layer.
	cleanup := func() {}
	suffix := ".so"
	localABI := device.UnknownABI
	switch runtime.GOOS {
	case "linux":
		localABI = device.LinuxX86_64
	case "windows":
		localABI = device.WindowsX86_64
		suffix = ".dll"
	default:
		return cleanup, fmt.Errorf("Unsupported OS for local tracing")
	}

	libVkLayerGraphicsSpy, err := layout.File(ctx, localABI, "libVkLayerGraphicsSpy"+suffix)
	if err != nil {
		return cleanup, err
	}

	// TODO (qining): library name may change for different OS/ABI
	libgapii, err := layout.File(ctx, localABI, "libgapii"+suffix)
	if err != nil {
		return cleanup, err
	}

	env := shell.CloneEnv().
		AddPathStart("VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS", "VkGraphicsSpy").
		AddPathStart("VK_DEVICE_LAYERS", "VkGraphicsSpy")
	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
		sourceFile := libVkLayerGraphicsSpy.Parent().System() + "\\GraphicsSpyLayer.json"
		sourceContent, err := ioutil.ReadFile(sourceFile)
		if err != nil {
			return cleanup, err
		}
		tempdir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "gapit_dir")
		if err != nil {
			return cleanup, err
		}
		cleanup = func() {
			os.RemoveAll(tempdir)
		}
		fixedContent := strings.Replace(string(sourceContent[:len(sourceContent)]), "./libgapii.so", libgapii.System(), 1)
		fixedContent = strings.Replace(fixedContent, "\\", "\\\\", -1)
		ioutil.WriteFile(tempdir+"\\GraphicsSpyLayer.json", []byte(fixedContent), 0644)
		env.AddPathStart("VK_LAYER_PATH", tempdir)
	} else {
		env.Set("LD_PRELOAD", libgapii.System()).
			AddPathStart("VK_LAYER_PATH", libVkLayerGraphicsSpy.Parent().System())
	}

	r := regexp.MustCompile("'.+'|\".+\"|\\S+")
	args := r.FindAllString(verb.Local.Args, -1)

	boundPort, err := process.Start(ctx, verb.Local.App.System(), process.StartOptions{
		Env:  env,
		Args: args,
	})

	if err != nil {
		return cleanup, err
	}
	if verb.Local.Port == 0 {
		verb.Local.Port = boundPort
	}
	return cleanup, nil
}

func (verb *traceVerb) captureLocal(ctx context.Context, flags flag.FlagSet, port int, options client.Options) error {
	output := verb.Out
	if output == "" {
		output = "capture.gfxtrace"
	}
	return doCapture(ctx, options, port, output, verb.For)
}

func (verb *traceVerb) captureADB(ctx context.Context, flags flag.FlagSet, options client.Options) error {
	d, err := getADBDevice(ctx, verb.Gapii.Device)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	var a *android.ActivityAction
	switch {
	case !options.APK.IsEmpty():
		// Install APK, trace it, uninstall
		ctx := log.V{"source": options.APK}.Bind(ctx)
		log.I(ctx, "Installing APK")
		data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(options.APK.System())
		if err != nil {
			return log.Err(ctx, err, "Read APK")
		}
		info, err := apk.Analyze(ctx, data)
		if err != nil {
			return log.Err(ctx, err, "Analyse APK")
		}
		if err := d.InstallAPK(ctx, options.APK.System(), true, true); err != nil {
			return log.Err(ctx, err, "Install APK")
		}
		pkg := &android.InstalledPackage{
			Name:       info.Name,
			Device:     d,
			ABI:        d.Instance().GetConfiguration().PreferredABI(info.ABI),
			Debuggable: info.Debuggable,
		}
		defer func() {
			log.I(ctx, "Uninstall APK")
			pkg.Uninstall(ctx)
		}()
		a = &android.ActivityAction{
			Name:     info.Action,
			Package:  pkg,
			Activity: info.Activity,
		}

	case verb.TraceFlags.Android.Package != "":
		packages, err := d.InstalledPackages(ctx)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		pkg := packages.FindByName(verb.TraceFlags.Android.Package)
		if pkg == nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("Package '%v' not found", verb.TraceFlags.Android.Package)
		}
		a = pkg.ActivityActions.FindByName(verb.TraceFlags.Android.Action, verb.TraceFlags.Android.Activity)
		if a == nil {
			lines := make([]string, len(pkg.ActivityActions))
			for i, a := range pkg.ActivityActions {
				lines[i] = a.String()
			}
			return fmt.Errorf("Action '%v:%v' not found. All package actions:\n  %v",
				verb.TraceFlags.Android.Action, verb.TraceFlags.Android.Activity,
				strings.Join(lines, "\n  "))
		}

	default:
		if flags.NArg() != 1 {
			app.Usage(ctx, "Invalid number of arguments. Expected 1, got %d", flags.NArg())
			return nil
		}
		activity := flags.Arg(0)
		a, err = getAction(ctx, d, activity)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}
	if a.Package.Debuggable {
		log.I(ctx, "Package is debuggable")
	} else {
		err = d.Root(ctx)
		switch err {
		case nil:
		case adb.ErrDeviceNotRooted:
			return err
		default:
			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to restart ADB as root: %v", err)
		}
		log.I(ctx, "Device is rooted")
	}

	// Filenames - if no name specified, use package name.
	output := verb.Out
	if output == "" {
		output = a.Package.Name + ".gfxtrace"
	}
	inputFile := verb.Input.File
	if inputFile == "" {
		inputFile = a.Package.Name + ".inputs"
	}

	if verb.Clear.Cache {
		log.I(ctx, "Clearing package cache")
		if err := a.Package.ClearCache(ctx); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	if wasScreenOn, _ := d.IsScreenOn(ctx); !wasScreenOn {
		defer d.TurnScreenOff(ctx) // Think green!
	}

	port, cleanup, err := client.Start(ctx, a)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer cleanup(ctx)

	ctx, stop := task.WithCancel(ctx)
	if verb.Record.Inputs {
		log.I(ctx, "Starting input recorder")
		cleanup, err := startRecordingInputs(ctx, d, inputFile)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer cleanup()
	} else if verb.Replay.Inputs {
		log.I(ctx, "Starting input replayer")
		if err := startReplayingInputs(ctx, d, inputFile, stop); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	return doCapture(ctx, options, int(port), output, verb.For)
}

func doCapture(ctx context.Context, options client.Options, port int, out string, duration time.Duration) error {
	log.I(ctx, "Creating file '%v'", out)
	os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(out), 0755)
	file, err := os.Create(out)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer file.Close()

	signal, fireSignal := task.NewSignal()
	if duration == 0 {
		var cancel task.CancelFunc
		ctx, cancel = task.WithCancel(ctx)
		go func() {
			reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
			if (options.Flags & client.DeferStart) != 0 {
				println("Press enter to start capturing...")
				_, _ = reader.ReadString('\n')
				fireSignal(ctx)
			}
			println("Press enter to stop capturing...")
			_, _ = reader.ReadString('\n')
			cancel()
		}()
	} else {
		ctx, _ = task.WithTimeout(ctx, duration)
	}
	_, err = client.Capture(ctx, port, signal, file, options)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

func getAction(ctx context.Context, d adb.Device, pattern string) (*android.ActivityAction, error) {
	re := regexp.MustCompile("(?i)" + pattern)
	packages, err := d.InstalledPackages(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if len(packages) == 0 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("No packages found")
	}
	matchingActions := []*android.ActivityAction{}
	for _, p := range packages {
		for _, action := range p.ActivityActions {
			if re.MatchString(action.String()) {
				matchingActions = append(matchingActions, action)
			}
		}
	}
	if len(matchingActions) == 0 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("No actions matching %s found", pattern)
	} else if len(matchingActions) > 1 {
		fmt.Println("Matching actions:")
		for _, test := range matchingActions {
			fmt.Print("    ")
			fmt.Println(test)
		}
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Multiple actions matching %q found", pattern)
	}
	log.I(ctx, "action: %v", matchingActions[0])
	return matchingActions[0], nil
}

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Colorstrology is the result of a partnership with renowned healer and astrologer Michele Bernardt, and infuses elements of astrology and numerology with the "spirituality" of colour. The project defines the exact Pantone-formulated colour profile for each birth date over the year, and the corresponding personality characteristics that flow from them.
Colorstrology is formulated from the assumption that in the same manner that being born under a particular star sign can offer insights into an individual's personality and nature, so too does the colour that corresponds to a specific birth date. In order to pin down each day's unique colour, the numerological vibrations for each month and day were distilled by Berhardt to create a palette to draw from.
To view your own corresponding colour for the day on which you were born, visit www.colorstrology.com.


Bringing together food allergy families, clinicians, researchers and experts throughout Midwest region for the latest research on the state of food allergy and new advancements in treatments, prevention and daily living.
WHAT: For the first time ever, we are gathering the many "faces of food allergy", including parents, caretakers, kids, researchers, pediatricians, allergists, nurses, school personnel and anyone who helps care for someone with food allergy. The Midwest FACES conference presents the perfect platform for exchanging ideas and creating connections among all dedicated stakeholders, in addition to learning the latest and greatest in food allergy research. Join us to share your perspective, while gaining support from others who get it...know it...live it!
Attendees must be age 9 or older. Aside from the content breadth and complexity, the day features a kids-only track and they will be physically separated from their parents. However, parents with kids of all ages are welcome and encouraged to attend.
"The Midwest is an established hub for medical innovation and advancement, making Chicago the perfect venue for this inaugural food allergy conference," says Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Clinical Attending at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Director of Science & Outcomes of Allergy & Asthma Research (SOAAR) Program. "On Saturday, we'll feature the 'best of the best' regional experts in the field with the primary focus on families who are seeking more knowledge and support. If you are a child with food allergies, or a caregiver of someone with food allergies, this conference is for you!"
Note: Hotel room block group rates will be available soon.
For additional details and/or to register, please click here.


See the band members' social media updates from Grammy weekend.
The 'Cross Off' single is more star-studded than we initially thought.
Corey Beaulieu offers insight into the band's touring and album plans.
A melodic metalcore match made in Heaven.
The two musicians still don't like each other.
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Excellent reporting! I feel like I was there. And LUCKY you! BJD! It surely will be well-dressed!
I'm enjoying the posts on the convention. I never had heard of this before until I joined a Bleuette group and some of the ladies attended it. However they didn't tell me much about it, and your blog posts are marvelous! I didn't have time in the summer to read them so I am back now. I just LOVE your blog.


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Virat Kohli wins ODI Cricketer of the Year Award
Virat Kohli was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the ICC annual awards function in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Saturday, September 15.
During the last one year, Virat Kohli played 31 ODIs and scored 1733 runs at an outstanding average of 66.65, including eight hundreds and six half-centuries.
Virat Kohli has been named ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year 2012 at the LG ICC Awards in Colombo on Saturday, September 15.
India's middle-order batsman Virat Kohli's highest score of 183 came against Pakistan in the Asia Cup on March 18.
Kohli won the award for his consistent performance over the last 12 months during which he amassed runs all over the world and against almost all the countries India played.
The 32-member expert panel preferred Virat Kohli, who beat off competition from his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sangakkara and Sri Lanka's pace spearhead Lasith Malinga.
"I think I have tried to keep things as simple as possible and it's worked for me on the field. This year has been a learning curve along the way from the seniors in the team. It's been an all-round effort and I'm very happy to have won this award," Kohli said upon receiving the award.
Virat Kohli on Saturday, September 17 said, It's always nice to be recognised by the ICC and it's a great feeling and it's the first time I've won one of these awards and it feels great.
In the 50-over format, Kohli has so far scored 3886 runs from 90 matches at an average of 51.81.
In Tests, Kohli has scored 703 runs from 10 matches at an average of 41.35. He has two centuries and five fifties, with 116 being his best.
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Bracco Imaging aims to develop new imaging-based solutions addressing medical needs which are poorly met or unmet by the present technologies. The conditions addressed are in the areas of cardiovascular (e.g. vulnerable plaque), oncological (e.g. neoangiogenesis and some specific antigens) and degenerative diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis). The goal is to provide the patient and his doctor with a more accurate diagnostic tool and the social community with a solution that positively impacts on the cost-benefit balance of the healthcare system.
Guiding minimally invasive treatments and monitoring their efficacy over time.
Developing patient management solutions with information technology tools for mining and handling Imaging & Patient Data in novel ways.
These solutions are aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy, individualize patient profiling, predict/monitor its evolution, and streamline hospital workflow.


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Q: Outlook rule across mail boxes At my workplace, I am supposed to use two different email address (one with the employer and another one with the customer). I have setup outlook with both these mailboxes and is using this method for couple of years. With this setup though, I am always having a problem when people send me email on both the email address, I end up getting same email twice which causes me keep on cleaning up one or the other mailbox. I have several rules setup but I am not able to figure out what would be the best way to setup a rule across two mailboxes, so that when the same email is received at one place, it should delete one of those.
(One thing I could do off course is request one of the mailbox administrator to forward all emails to other account so that I end of maintaining just one. But I am not sure how effective that would be and due to work expected besides me, I would choose that as a last resort if nothing else works)

A: For instance, you have two mailboxes: user1@a.com and user2@b.com. And you want user1@a.com to be the primary one. Create this rule for user2@b.com:
Apply rule on messages I receive -> where my name is in the To or Cc box and sent to people or public group (type user1@b.com) -> delete it and stop processing more rules.
Now all messages that come to user2@b.com mailbox and additionally addressed to user1@a.com will be deleted in user2@b.com mailbox.

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India's External Relations
NCERT Solutions For Class 12 Political Science	Chapter 7	India's External Relations
Get NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Political Science India's External Relations in this step by step solution guide. In a number of State Boards and CBSE schools, students are taught through NCERT books. As the chapter comes to an end, students are asked few questions in an exercise to evaluate their understanding of the chapter. Students often need guidance dealing with these NCERT Solutions. It's only natural to get stuck in the exercises while solving them so to help students score higher marks, we have provided step by step NCERT solutions for all exercises of Class 12 Political Science India's External Relations so that you can seek help from them. Students should solve these exercises carefully as questions in the final exams are asked from these so these exercises directly have an impact on students' final score. Find all NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Political Science India's External Relations below and prepare for your exams easily.
Match the following
(a) The goal of India's foreign policy in the period 1950-1964 i. Tibetan spiritual leader who crossed over to India
(b) Panchsheel ii. Preservation of territorial integrity, sovereignty and economic development
(c) Bandung Conference iii. Five principles of peaceful coexistence
(d) Dalai Lama iv. Led to the establishment of NAM
The goal of India's foreign policy in the period 1950-1964
Preservation of territorial integrity, sovereignty and economic development
Five principles of peaceful coexistence
Bandung Conference
Led to the establishment of NAM
Tibetan spiritual leader who crossed over to India
Write 'true' or 'false' against each of these statements. (a) Non-alignment allowed India to gain assistance both from USA and USSR. (b) India's relationship with her neighbours has been strained from the beginning. (c) The cold war has affected the relationship between India and Pakistan. (d) The treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1971 was the result of India's closeness to USA.
Explanation- India's relation with Pakistan has been strained from the beginning but with china, India started on a friendly note. Bhutan, Nepal and Burma (Myanmar) were also friendly nations.
(d) FALSE
Explanation-In order to counter the US-Pakistan-China axis, India signed a 20-year Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union in August 1971.
Write short notes on the following. (a) India's Nuclear policy (b) Consensus in foreign policy matters
(a) Nehru had always put his faith in science and technology for rapidly building a modern India. A significant component of his industrialisation plans was the nuclear programme initiated in the late 1940s under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha. India wanted to generate atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Nehru was against nuclear weapons. So he pleaded with the superpowers for comprehensive nuclear disarmament. When India conducted its first nuclear test in May 1974, it was termed as a peaceful explosion. India argued that it was committed to the policy of using nuclear power only for peaceful purposes.
India has opposed the international treaties aimed at non-proliferation since they were selectively applicable to the non-nuclear powers and legitimised the monopoly of the five nuclear weapons powers. Thus, India opposed the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995 and also refused to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). India conducted a series of nuclear tests in May 1998, demonstrating its capacity to use nuclear energy for military purposes. India's nuclear doctrine of credible minimum nuclear deterrence professes "no first use" and reiterates India's commitment to global, verifiable and non-discriminatory nuclear disarmament leading to a nuclear weapons free world.
(b) Although there are minor differences among political parties about how to conduct external relations, Indian politics is generally marked by a broad agreement among the parties on national integration, protection of international boundaries, and on questions of national interest. Therefore, we find that in the decade of 1962-1972, when India faced three wars, or even later when different parties came to power from time to time, foreign policy has played only a limited role in party politics.
Identify any two aspects of India's foreign policy that you would like to retain and two that you would like to change, if you were to become a decision maker. Give reasons to support your position.
I would like to retain the policy of favouring peaceful world because war or terrorism is not the permanent solution of any problem. Lakhs of people lose their life due to the wrong policy decisions of policymakers. Deliberation, consultation, and diplomatic maneuvering can solve most of the problems.
I would like to retain the Nehru's foreign policy to preserve the hard-earned sovereignty, protect territorial integrity, and promote rapid economic development because it is a result of sacrifices made during India's struggle for freedom. Every human being deserves to be free from economic political or social constraints that retard the development of the individual. A free nation is the cherished dream of every citizen.
I would like to change the way we were dealing with India's immediate neighbours. I would suggest policymakers to rethink and devise a long term innovative strategy for the neighbourhood.
The international community must realize its role in world peace and they must send clear cut messages that no terrorist activities are tolerated on any national soil. Once the world community is assured of a cooperative, peaceful environment, steps should be taken to intermingle the best influential citizens of these nations. A lot of cultural and economic activities are organized so that people can understand each other's similarities and differences. Sania-Shoaib kind of marriages creates an environment of friendliness. As SEZs are created to develop economic activities among nations similarly Special cultural Zones (SCZs) are created where passport less tourist access is given to neighboring nations citizens. In these places, they will share their ways of life (Festivals, rituals, etc.)
Another change I would like is a freeing up of self-imposed, historical and mental constraints on developing the relationship with any country to its full potential. Thus, India's economic relationship with potential adversaries can be independent of its security relationship. For Example, the relationship with one country will not constrain that with others — cooperation with China will not affect that with Japan. Both will be evaluated in terms of India's objectives of building national power.
"The conduct of foreign affairs is an outcome of a two-way interaction between domestic compulsions and prevailing international climate". Take one example from India's external relations in the 1960s to substantiate your answer.
Just as both internal and external factors guide the behaviour of an individual or a family, both domestic and international environment influence the foreign policy of a nation. The developing countries lack the required resources to effectively advocate their concerns in the international system. So they pursue more modest goals than the advanced states. The foreign policy of a nation reflects the interplay of domestic and external factors. Therefore, the noble ideals that inspired India's struggle for freedom influenced the making of its foreign policy.
India advocated non-alignment as the ideal foreign policy approach. This was a difficult balancing act and sometimes the balance did not appear perfect. In 1956 when Britain attacked Egypt over the Suez canal issue, India led the world protest against this neo-colonial invasion. But in the same year when the USSR invaded Hungary, India did not join its public condemnation. This proves that the conduct of foreign affairs is an outcome of a two-way interaction between domestic compulsions and prevailing international climate.
Does India's foreign policy reflect her desire to be an important regional power? Argue your case with the Bangladesh war of 1971 as an example.
Nehru envisaged a major role for India in world affairs and especially in Asian affairs. His era was marked by the establishment of contacts between India and other newly independent states in Asia and Africa. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Nehru had been an ardent advocate of Asian unity. Under his leadership, India convened the Asian Relations Conference in March 1947, five months ahead of attaining its independence. India made earnest efforts for the early realisation of freedom of Indonesia from the Dutch colonial regime by convening an international conference in 1949 to support its freedom struggle. Bandung Conference marked the zenith of India's engagement with the newly independent Asian and African nations. The Bandung Conference later led to the establishment of the NAM. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed the prospects for India. India made new approaches such as its 'Look East' policy towards the miracle economies of ASEAN.
India extended moral and material support to the freedom struggle in Bangladesh. Within ten days the Indian army had surrounded Dhaka from three sides and the Pakistani army. With Bangladesh as a free country, India declared a unilateral ceasefire. In this incident, India was not attacked by Pakistan but India intervened for the freedom of Bangladesh. This reflects India's foreign policy has the desire to be an important regional power
Why did Nehru regard conduct of foreign relations as an essential indicator of independence? State any two reasons with examples to support your reading.
As said by Jawaharlal Nehru, What does independence consist of? It consists fundamentally and basically of foreign relations. That is the test of independence. All else is local autonomy. Once foreign relations go out of your hands into the charge of somebody else, to that extent and in that measure you are not independent.
Sovereignty of the state means exercise of supreme or paramount power. It is sovereignty which gives to the state a legal status and vests it with supreme, final, ultimate and legally unlimited power over all persons, organisations and groups which inhabit its territory. Sovereignty has two dimensions i.e. internal sovereignty and external sovereignty.
By internal sovereignty means the exercise of supreme power over all the people and in the whole territory of the state. External sovereignty means supreme power of the state in the international system. External sovereignty really means sovereign equality of all the states. Sovereignty resides with the state. It is the original, absolute and indivisible supreme power of the state. Once foreign relations go out of state's hands into the charge of somebody else the state ceases to exist.
Two reasons for conduct of foreign relations are:
The creation of the Indian National Army (INA) by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose during the Second World War was the clearest manifestation of the linkages established between India and overseas Indians during the freedom struggle. This establishment of relations with international community paved the way for India's independence.
In order to counter the US-Pakistan-China axis, India signed a 20-year Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union in August 1971. This treaty assured India of Soviet support if the country faced any attack. Maintaining such relation helped India liberate Bangladesh from Pakistan and win a war.
Read this passage and answer the questions below: "Broadly, non-alignment means not tying yourself off with military blocs….It means trying to view things, as far as possible, not from the military point of view, though that has to come in sometimes, but independently, and trying to maintain friendly relations with all countries." — JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (a) Why does Nehru want to keep off military blocs? (b) Do you think that the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty violated the principle of non-alignment? Give reasons for your answer. (c) If there were no military blocs, do you think non-alignment would have been unnecessary?
(a) India wanted to keep away from the military alliances led by the US and the Soviet Union against each other. The foreign policy of independent India vigorously pursued the dream of a peaceful world by advocating the policy of non-alignment. India wants to keep off military blocs to act independently and try to maintain friendly relations with all countries.
(b) My view is that India needed diplomatic and possibly military support during the Bangladesh crisis and that in any case, the treaty did not stop India from having good relations with other countries including the US.
India's non-alignment is rooted in her national interest which consists of development domestically and independence of action internationally. It has also meant a non-bloc policy, rejecting the concept of naturally on the one hand and theory of mechanical equidistance from blocs on the other.
The terms of the Indo-Soviet treaty did not violate the contents and the spirit of non-alignment as pursued by India. Article I of the treaty pledged the two parties to maintain mutual friendship and to respect each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty. Article IV of the treaty-bound soviet Union to respect India's non-alignment. Under Article IX it was agreed that neither party should support any third state in a military aggression against the other party and should enter into mutual consultations, in case of such aggressions. This was the essence of non-alignment, any political and military commitments to another nation or bloc of nations, especially the great power, in the context of the cold war. Consultations certainly do not imply commitment. To say therefore that in the indo soviet treaty, 'consultations' alone or to take 'effective measures', is a commitment, in violation of India's non-alignment is a distortion of the plain meaning of words.
The treaty is not a military alliance or even a military assistance agreement of the kind that the United States had for many years with Pakistan; nor is there in the treaty, the provision regarding co-operation in the military field. It is a treaty of non-aggression. It is a treaty-based on the sovereign equality of India and the Soviet Union.
(c) With the disintegration of the USSR and the end of the Cold War in 1991, non-alignment, both as an international movement and as the core of India's foreign policy, lost some of its earlier relevance and effectiveness. However, nonalignment contained some core values and enduring ideas. It was based on the recognition that decolonised states share a historical affiliation and can become a powerful force if they come together. It meant that the poor and often very small countries of the world need not become followers of any of the big powers, that they could pursue an independent foreign policy. It was also based on a resolve to democratise the international system by thinking about an alternative world order to redress existing inequities. These core ideas remain relevant even after the Cold War has ended.
How does political leadership of a nation affect its foreign policy? Explain this with the help of examples from India's foreign policy.
Foreign policies of states may change slightly with a given leader, but ultimately, the polarity and stability of the international system will dictate how they will behave. Foreign policy debates in minor or middle powers are virtually unnecessary because their policies are influenced more by who they are allied with and their bandwagoning preferences, rather than a given leader's belief system. States that are classified as major or great powers have greater flexibility in their ability to change the course of world events in some cases, but they are more concerned with the balance of power. If they were to ignore the balance of power in the international system, they risk their power position and can precipitate war. At the highest end of the spectrum would be a systemic hegemon, whose actions can seriously alter the landscape of the system at any given time. In a unipolar system, the hegemon is most concerned with maintaining its position and in extending its sphere of influence to dissuade other powers from trying to balance against their power.
All of this is to say that foreign policy is not nearly as leader-centric as observers tend to believe. The role of national leaders in foreign policy is important to note, as they typically have constitutional (or authoritarian) powers to execute foreign policy decisions. However, all leaders are forced to make policy in the same self-interested, competitive and distrustful system.
The first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a crucial role in setting the national agenda. He was his foreign minister. Nehru possessed considerable leeway in formulating the foreign policy.
India's foreign policy was built around the principles of peace and cooperation. But India fought three wars in a space of ten years between 1962 and 1972. Would you say that this was a failure of the foreign policy? Or would you say that this was a result of international situation? Give reasons to support your answer.
The 1962 war with China was a failure of India's foreign policy. Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, he exercised a profound influence in the formulation and implementation of India's foreign policy from 1946 to 1964. Some of his colleagues, like Vallabhbhai Patel, were worried about a possible Chinese aggression in future. But Nehru thought it was 'exceedingly unlikely' that India will face an attack from China. For a very long time, the Chinese border was guarded by para-military forces, not the army. China launched a swift and massive invasion in October 1962 on both the disputed regions of Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Defeat in this war induced a sense of national humiliation and at the same time strengthened a spirit of nationalism. Nehru was severely criticised for his naïve assessment of the Chinese intentions and the lack of military preparedness. This incident reflected that this was a failure of the foreign policy.
In April 1965 Pakistan launched armed attacks in the Rann of Kutch area of Gujarat. This was followed by a bigger offensive in Jammu and Kashmir in August -September. Shastri ordered Indian troops to launch a counter-offensive on the Punjab border. In a fierce battle, the Indian army reached close to Lahore. UN intervened and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistan's General Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Agreement, brokered by the Soviet Union, in January 1966. This was a strategic war that was won by close relations with the Soviet Union. This was a success of India's foreign policy.
Beginning in 1970, Pakistan faced its biggest internal crisis that resulted in the Bangladesh war of 1971. To counter the US-Pakistan-China axis, India signed a 20-year Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union in August 1971. A full-scale war between India and Pakistan broke out in December 1971. The signing of the Shimla Agreement between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on 3 July 1972 formalised the return of peace. A decisive victory in the war led to national jubilation and proved the success of India's foreign policy.


Bank customers have increasingly turned to the financial services regulator Bafin with problems during the past year. The agency received a total of 5,539 official complaints to banks and financial service providers in 2018, as Bafin announced. The year before, it was still slightly less at 5,425. Including general inquiries, the number totaled 5,791 cases last year after 5,587 a year ago.
Terminated business relations. The subject of submissions was often the admissibility and amount of fees. There were particularly many consumer complaints and inquiries to securities transactions, which rose according to Bafin by almost 30 percent compared to 2017. Part of the cases related to the new EU Financial Markets Directive Mifid II, which has been in force since 3 January 2018 in Germany.
Since then, banks have had to record each phone call of a client with a securities advisor and archive it for at least five years. In addition, customers need to be given an accurate list of how much they cost a financial product. In the first few months of Mifid II, customers complained to Bafin, for example, about limited trading opportunities. In some cases, the required information sheets were initially missing for products.
Significantly more complaints were also about insurance. The number of entries increased from 7,367 in 2017 to 8,097. Customers mainly complained about rising private health insurance premiums, car insurance tariff changes or life insurer plans to sell policies in inventory to other vendors.
Influence institutions and bring about changes for the benefit of customers.


The year is coming to a close. We are now in the last quarter with fall quickly coming up upon us. For the past couple of years I have really enjoyed reading one of the Harry Potter books during the late fall, early holiday season. I have read the first four books, so I am just starting to now make the turn into the darker side of the series. That also means that the series starts to get a bit longer as we move on.
I have had an opportunity to read a lot of books this year, especially since I have taken advantage of my library's audiobooks. I can't say though that anything has really captured me with the exception of Ancillary Justice. The collection of Nebula Award short stories was extremely good and I truly enjoyed the Last Wish, which I just finished a few weeks ago.
I am currently reading an indie book called Render. It is the follow up with Shatter, which caught me by surprised a few years ago. I am hoping to wrap up some series that I have had hanging out there for a while now before diving deep into any new long standing series. I really want to get the Malayan series wrapped up soon as well, since that one only has a couple of books left in the main series.
I am struggling so far with Render since I cannot remember pretty much who any of the characters are. One of the troubles of reading a follow up series so many months later. Since it is an indie book, I have also been unable to fins a synopsis online to refresh my memory. It has been a struggle thus far to get into the book.
I am hoping I might be able to knock out two more books before the end of the year.


But according to the same discussions, there is no link to the publicity listings anywhere on an individual's IMDbPro page.
It seems that the publicity listings should be not only kept on IMDbPro, but linked from an individual's page. I realize that IMDbPro does not include all the features that the free consumer site does (such as trivia and goofs for films).
However, publicity listings could be useful for people in the entertainment industry, such as managers, press agents, etc., to monitor how much press their clients are receiving. So it would make sense to me to have the publicity listings as a proper feature (not just a hidden, unlinked item) on IMDbPro.
I'm bumping this thread. Thanks to David and Ljdoncel for their support.
Bluesman: Thanks for your support. Actually, Col already restored my Pro access a while ago.
Makes for less guessing what things look like and where they can be found. I'm glad!
In any event, I'm going to reiterate my original request. Having publicity pages on the Pro site (such as http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/publicity) is appropriate, because people in the entertainment industry may want to monitor what kinds of publicity (interviews, magazine covers, etc.) various people are receiving. But for that to be effective, the publicity page has to be accessible via a link from the person's name page on Pro (such as https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm0001401), and currently it isn't.
I recommend that the Publicity link be added to the "Media" menu on Pro name pages.
I'm bumping this thread again. Thanks to Nobo and Vincent for adding their support as well.
I'm bumping this thread because I have received no response after 15 months.
I would be surprised if the IMDb staff ever consciously decided to leave the publicity pages on the IMDbPro site but remove all the links to them from IMDbPro. That seems more like an error to me than an intentional plan.
I'm bumping this thread again after having received no staff response for a year and a half.
Thanks also to Peter for his support on this.
This thread could use a bump.
Well, it looks like this thread has been resolved, albeit not as I suggested. If I understand correctly, all the "publicity" subpages have been removed from the Pro site and can now be found on the consumer site only.
This subject was raised because an IMDbPro user stated in the thread at https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/press-page-missing that she could not find her publicity on the Pro site. I had thought that information about the publicity received by a person would be useful to people in the entertainment industry and thus would be kept on the Pro site. But I guess that IMDb sees that question differently.
Col: After having this thread open for nearly two years (since Feb. 5, 2016), I had been hoping for a substantive response from the IMDb staff.
To reiterate, the problem was that "publicity" subpages existed for name pages on the IMDbPro site, yet they weren't actually linked anywhere on the main name pages on IMDbPro. I recommended that links be added on the IMDbPro name pages so the publicity information would be accessible to Pro users.
Yes, we agree that publicists, producers, casting directors, agents, and other people in the industry are interested in seeing what kind of articles, interviews, and other publicity people are receiving. So we will plan to restore those links to the IMDbPro name pages.
Actually, we have found that people in the industry don't really care about the publicity listings. Those listings are mostly for fans. So we are going to keep the publicity information on the free consumer site, and remove the publicity subpages from the Pro site because Pro users mostly aren't interested in them.
Given that the publicity subpages have now been removed from the Pro site, what implication should I take from that?


Sometimes to do something good, you need to go through a bunch of fails. Which in our case came in the form of the game about two warships battling each other. At the time, we were asked if we could make a VR game that would not be a shooter but still would be somehow related to the games Wargaming is famous for. My colleagues still are trying to forget that nightmare, and I'm sure if there were a way of wiping out their memories of this particular episode, they'd gladly agreed to it.
Our warships even sank silently. We failed to spark interest in players, but the shock and disappointment from this project served as good preparation to have another go at a game about tank battles in VR.
And that is how the work began.
The results of the first prototyping were scathing.
Since you can't even think about making a game about tanks in VR without knowing for sure that you do know how to solve motion sickness problem - that was our first task. So we created a moving platform, put it on uneven terrain, put our VR headsets on and there it was.
"See! I told you it's impossible," I said.
One of our first ideas was to increase the number of details. I assumed that dizziness might be diminished if there were more visual details. We added some rocks on the terrain, planted a few trees, and built a railing around the platform. The effect was encouraging, but we had to do better than that. So we experimented with the density of details and different types of environments. For example, in a stylized world the brain was less affected by motion sickness than in a world pretending to be realistic. We then spent quite a lot of time coming up with the next clue. The fantastic thing about our brain is that it prioritizes every task. So if you give it a simple and relatively easy objective, it will switch to it — given the environment is immersive enough — and for a while forget about the dizziness.
"And when were you going to think of testing the actual game?" my inner voice gloated.
Jokes aside, this was a groundbreaking discovery for us. From that moment on, we started to tackle the problem of motion sickness in all directions at once, combining different approaches both in visual style and gameplay mechanics.
We tried almost everything. Putting players inside the tank didn't work out well: looking through a small window in the armor was destroying all our tricks found in previous iterations.
We experimented on the very process of shooting: in one of our prototypes players had to load a projectile into a cannon, then take aim and then pull the lever. As close to the real things as it was - that was hardly appropriate for a game.
We even tried to figure out how to put the whole crew in a tank, but that was apparently a fantasy: we failed to find a way to create equally interesting gameplay for all crew members. In addition to the fact that different roles meant different types of tutorials, every crew member who was not in control of the movement was inevitably getting sick.
Our first idea about how the vehicle should be controlled was using levers.
In the process, we found that there is merely a universe of opinions on how those levers should exactly work. At first, right and left controllers were respectively bound to right and left tracks. The game became a struggle with the tank rather than a fun experience.
Watching those poor souls trying to tame our tanks, we showed compassion and came up with the idea of a joystick in VR. Easier said than done: We never got tilt-controlled direction combined with angle-controlled acceleration to work in virtual reality. It was too hard to distinguish unnecessary movements from those meant to control the tank, so we went back to the idea of levers.
But this time each lever was responsible for the rotation of tracks: forward or backward, whereas the direction of movement was bound to the player's line of sight. Mastering the movement of the tank became much easier. It took us a few more iterations to figure out how we shoot, how we aim, and how different speeds of the tower rotation work. And the easier it was to control the tank, the less motion sickness we had. But right when we thought that it was over, we changed the whole system again.
And here is where I should thank the father of PC World of Tanks - Slava Makarov. Although the initial idea was born somewhere in our "Slytherin" R&D department, it was Slava who came up with the right formula: Why rely on a tilt, when we can mount both the acceleration and direction on the triggers. The one on the right controller would drive you forward, the other - backward. Since that final touch, the controlling of a movement became almost telepathic. Our players stopped thinking about how to control the damn thing and focused on where to go and who to kill.
Every now and then we had entirely unexpected setbacks.
One of those was finding the right tank model. Now, if you ask people what the model of a tank should be in a Russian PvP VR tank battles set somewhere around WW2, ten out of ten will say the T34. Well, I've got bad news for you.
You see, in our prototypes, we used a T76 model. And a T76 looks like pretty much everyone's image of a modern tank. It has very, well, tank-like proportions. And when we changed it to a T34, it was a disaster. Its proportions make impossible for a player to see the base of the tank. So when the tower turns while the tank is moving, and there is nothing to catch your eye, motion sickness strikes back.
Once we got over an overwhelming panic attack, we started researching every Soviet tank from those years. Light tanks were too high and too fast. Heavy tanks were to slow. So we ended up with the medium tanks, and finally found T44-100.
In spite of never having taken part in actual battles, this tank was perfect for us. Its proportions were almost like those of modern tanks, which meant players could always see the movement direction, and its speed was ideal for the map we had by that time.
As you can see, among hundreds of models, this was literally the only tank that could work for us.
Our initial idea was that we stick to the maps that PC players are used to in World oF Tanks, which meant a rugged terrain, warm colors, a bunch of trees for players to cut through, and that's it. We had neither time nor the resources to go with more than one map, so we had to make sure that the map we provided at the start would have everything we needed: enough landmarks and a landscape that was not going to make rounds too messy or too dull.
"Well, how big a map are we talking about?"
"For Christ's sake, man, three ranges of an arrow? How would I know?"
Well, it may not have been arrows, but the diameter did depend on the projectile's speed, the tank's pace, and the average time we intended players to spend heading into active fight zones.
And if that were not enough, we got into a fight on what time of the year it should be. While our Slytherin aesthetes wanted it to be winter and snow, I was adamant on bringing players into bright autumn or summer which, as I thought, would be more fun.
"Are you out of your goddamn mind? These are tanks, for God's sake. This game should be about darkness and fire and death and despair" they resented.
We met halfway and made it fun but set in the winter.
"And how do you think it 'd work out? Behold, here goes a tank with a couple of hands and a helmet floating above its tower"
"What if we show a person's torso coming out of fade?"
"Well, good luck having tankish centaurs!"
"Guys, if those are centaurs then what does it make a gun sticking from... Oh, wait!"
Freudian mention of a gun sticking out from right where player's legs should have been put an and to the dispute. Our final decision was quite elegant: no torso, no helmet, just a pair of hands holding the tops of the levers, with all the controls player might need. The button on the left controls the locking view and zooming in, the one on the right controls shooting.
All too often, (Russian) game developers get stuck at the prototype stage and then wonder why it didn't work out in the end. That must come from our school education mindset over here. Our parents teach us that if we solve a math problem with a minor mistake in calculations or formatting, it's still okay as long as we get the answer right. Well, moms may love us for what we are, but the rest of the world doesn't really care about our brilliant ideas or insights. What it needs is a tangible result.
Somehow, game devs seldom go through these mundane points. They simply lack the motivation for it: What's the point of going into all these details if you have already made a game — let's improve the explosion visuals instead. But here we really tried to follow the checklist with the precision it deserved.
We first introduced WoT VR at WGFest in December 2017, with one tank, one map and only one deathmatch mode available. By the spring of 2018, we had two maps and we could have up to 8 players instead of 4, which made the newly-made team deathmatch mode even more engaging.
In May 2018, we hosted the WoT VR tournament at our largest venue - VR Park City in Moscow. A month after that, at the finals, the winner took home an SUV with an exclusive World Of Tanks design as the first prize.
And finally, at this year's Gamescom we introduced a grown-up version of our game: three different classes of tanks, a new map, and the foundation for the progression system. Not to mention another bunch of cheesy details like a completely revamped UI, or a new starting hangar lobby.
As a result, WoT VR has been awarded with Best AR/VR experience at Gamescom'2018 by Dualshokers.
beNext comes AI, which is going to make available in both single-player and coop modes.
Later this year, we are going to introduce PvE scenarios, and finally, new PvP modes.
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Storytelling Live!, the International Storytelling Center's celebrated teller-in-residence series, continues its season in July. The program features 26 of America's best-loved storytellers, one each week May through October. Each teller appears in matinee performances Tuesday through Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Mary B. Martin Storytelling Hall, Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Tim Lowry, of South Carolina, starts off the month with performances from July 3-7. Delighting audiences across the country, Lowry mixes stories from American history with a variety of folktales and personal narrative, often performing stories of southern culture and history from the "Sweet Tea Trail." The award-winning recording artist and author has performed on television and in hundreds of appearances nationwide. Lowry offers a special children's concert July 7 at 10:30 am.
Award-winning storyteller Heather Forest of New York appears July 10-14. The comedy and pathos of point of view, the mysteries of womenfolk, the trickster, the fool, quests and journeys are threads on the storyteller's colorful loom. A modern-day bard, her storytelling performances are a fusion of poetry, prose, original melody and the sung and spoken word. Her folktale books and recordings have won numerous awards including the American Library Association's Notable Recording Award and Parents' Choice Gold Awards. Forest is also the recipient of the NSN ORACLE Circle of Excellence Award.
July 17-21 brings Andy Offutt Irwin from Georgia as Storytelling Live's resident storyteller. With a manic, Silly Putty voice, hilarious, heart-filled stories and amazing mouth noises, Andy Offutt Irwin is equal parts mischievous schoolboy and the Marx Brothers, peppered with a touch of the Southern Balladeer. Along with being a vagabond storyteller, Irwin works as an arts educator, keynote speaker, theater director, songwriter, comedian, newspaper columnist and Shakespearian actor. Irwin's appearances have taken him across the U.S., including the Library of Congress and Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center. Irwin is a recipient of the NSN ORACLE Circle of Excellence award.
Don White of Michigan performs July 24-28. White's arc as a writer and performer has taken him from his industrial hometown of Lynn, Massachusetts, through Boston's comedy clubs and coffeehouses, and onto stages around the country. At every point, White has been the ultimate observer, infusing his work with his experiences as a husband, a father, a seeker and a joker. An award-winning singer, songwriter, comedian, author and storyteller, White has opened for Arlo Guthrie and shared a bill with Janis Ian and Lyle Lovett. He has been bringing audiences to laughter and tears for 30 years.
Rounding out the month, July 31-Aug. 4, is Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, a Colombian storyteller, social communicator and graphic designer. Her bilingual storytelling enchants her audiences with her compelling mannerisms and the passion she brings to each story. Quiroga-Stultz was awarded "Outstanding Performer of the Year" by East Tennessee State University, was the recipient of the J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Grant Award and is a Teacher Artist for the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts. Her performances have taken her across the U.S., including the Tejas Storytelling Festival, as well as to Costa Rica and Mexico.
For more information about Storytelling Live! or to purchase tickets to any of the performances, call 800-952-8392 ext. 222 or 423-913-1276.


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