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The Best Books on Delhi You Should Read
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From the ancient times of the Mahabharata to the splendour of the Mughal period to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Delhi's tumultuous history has long inspired writers. For anyone planning to visit Delhi, the following books offer a glimpse into Delhi's changing history, culture and society.
'Twilight in Delhi' (1940) by Ahmed Ali
Nostalgia for a fading past, the collapse of culture and the failure to do anything about it makes for a moving tale of melancholy and desperation in Ahmed Ali's first novel, Twilight in Delhi. Although the story is about Mir Nihal and his family, Old Delhi is the ultimate protagonist; a city that once commanded the attention of the world has to now witness the coronation of British King George near the Jama Masjid while the descendant of a Mughal ruler is found begging on the streets. The despair of Mir Nihal will stay with you long after you finish the book. Translations are available in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Urdu.
'Clear Light of Day' (1980) by Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day is Anita Desai's first of three novels to have received Booker Prize nominations. Set primarily in Old Delhi, Clear Light of Day is essentially a family saga revolving around three siblings Tara, Bimla and Raja. The novel also deals with the transformation of the city as Old Delhi starts being overtaken by the modern and more fashionable New Delhi, with the changes in the family's fate over time reflecting Delhi's evolution.
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'Delhi: A Novel' (1990) by Khushwant Singh
Tracing incidents from Delhi's past with humour and irreverence is this outstanding novel by Khushwant Singh. An erudite narrator tunnels through the events that shaped Delhi, from the First War of Independence in 1857 to the riots of 1984, and from the Mughals to the Lodhis and Tughlaqs. Singh's prose takes no prisoners: he describes the destruction of the city at the hands of Nadir Shah and Taimur, while also making a point about how Delhi, as a city, destroyed figures such as the poet Mir Taqi Mir.
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'Rich Like Us' (1985) by Nayantara Sahgal
Rich Like Us is a novel based in New Delhi in the 1970s. Most of it is set during the Emergency, imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The narrative explores how the lives of two very different aristocratic women become entwined with the events of history. Rose is an Englishwoman and the second wife of a wealthy businessman, who finds it difficult to adjust to life in India. She befriends Sonali, a well-educated civil servant. As issues of corruption, power and money are tackled, the contrast between the lives of the rich in Delhi and the poor play out.
Nayantara Sahgal © Photo by Jasjeet Plaha/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
'The White Tiger' (2008) by Aravind Adiga
In an article published in LiveMint, Aravind Adiga writes, "Most of all, during my time in Delhi I understood what I was meant to want on earth. More than money, fame, or life – O, much more than life –I wanted to write." In his first novel The White Tiger (which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008), Delhi plays an indispensable role. It is here that Balram, the protagonist, becomes aware of the limitless affluence around him. He also becomes conscious of the vast class divide, and the powerlessness of those who come from the lower strata of society. Delhi is the base from which Balram, who eventually prospers, alters his destiny.
Aravind Adiga with his book'The White Tiger' © Leon Neal/AFP via Getty Images
'The Heart Has its Reasons' (1993) by Krishna Sobti
The Old Delhi of 1920 comes alive in this beautiful tale by Krishna Sobti. The reader is transported back in time to the bustling by-lanes of Chandni Chowk. The married Hindu lawyer Kripanarayan starts a torrid love affair with a Muslim courtesan's daughter, Mehak Bano, while his wife Kutumb struggles to fight for her marriage. Sobti masterfully tackles feelings of love, hatred, jealousy and greed while vividly illustrating the culture of early 20th century Old Delhi, complete with bustling bazaars and black magic.
'The Walls of Delhi' (2012) by Uday Prakash
The Walls of Delhi comprises three stories about characters whose lives are plagued by poverty. Prakash incisively details the everyday battles of those struggling to make ends meet in a big city. There's Mohandas, a lower-caste man whose hard-earned achievements are infringed upon by an upper-caste identity thief; Ramnivas, a sweeper whose life changes after he stumbles upon a hoard of cash; and Prakash, who provides an insight into poverty, caste discrimination, urban displacement and corruption that continue to plague India.
Uday Prakash © Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images
'The Goat, the Sofa and Mr. Swami' (2010) by R. Chandrasekar
The Goat, the Sofa and Mr. Swami is a hilarious book about the absurdity of Indian politics and bureaucracy. The plot revolves around the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Motwani, who's always getting into trouble, and his subordinate, Mr. Swami of the Indian Administration Service, who tries to set things right. When the Prime Minister of Pakistan invites himself to an India-Pakistan cricket match series, the shortcomings of the Indian administration are laid bare, giving rise to several hysterical episodes.
'Midnight's Children' (1981) by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's Booker-Prize-winning Midnight's Children is an epic, postcolonial novel that deals with India's move from colonial rule to independence. It is set in various cities across the Indian subcontinent, with a moving description of the Emergency rule imposed by Indira Gandhi and its subsequent influence on Delhi.
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Grace Beard contributed additional reporting to this article.


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Home News "MUSIC IS ON THE WAY TO RECOVER FROM PANDEMIC"
"MUSIC IS ON THE WAY TO RECOVER FROM PANDEMIC"
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The issue of disproportionate quarantine supplies in many low-income countries in Africa and Central Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic and various after-effects of the pandemic are problems that should be solved through transnational organizations.
The purpose of the campaign "ON THE WAY", a global charity to help overcome the issues above, is to create various contents centered on art and music by collaborating with famous artists to convey inspiration and warmth to those who are worn out from their mundane lives. Just like the 1985 grand campaign "WE ARE THE WORLD", which was a project that included top artists such as Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Dylan.
According to the organizer of the "ON THE WAY" charity campaign, "This campaign aims to give hope to those barely getting by regardless of culture, race, religion, language, and generation, that there is a better world awaiting them."
The title song of first single album, which is scheduled to be recorded in Korea, the United States, and Ireland, will be released as an album and soundtrack. The soundtrack of the "ON THE WAY" global campaign will be released around December, and most of the proceeds from album sales will be donated to several non-profit global charities including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Food Programme (WFP).
Grammy Awards winner Venus Brown will be leading the ON THE WAY campaign as the general producer, and Timbaland – winner of 7 Grammy Awards – will participate as the music director in composing and arranging the campaign song, raising expectations for the album.
Venus Brown mentioned that "The participating artists—Camila Cabello, DJ Khaled, Justin Timberlake, will.i.am—will also join this campaign to support the vision to spread positive influence through music."
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War in Europe
After the horrors of Gallipoli the soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and Australian Imperial Force were sent to fight on the battlefields of Europe. The films and audio in this collection highlight the experiences of soldiers and medical personnel on the battlefronts, hospitals and training camps during World War I.
Australian soldiers in France
Prime minister William (Billy) Hughes, Sir G...
Billy Hughes visits the AIF's home away from home
The First World War led to a major influx of...
Direct to Aussie
This footage shows Australian troops boardin...
Caring for our Wounded
Over 3,000 Australian nurses volunteered dur...
Regarding the epidemic of marriages
A report issued in March 1916 observed that&...
In the Bull Ring at Sling Camp
Sling Camp on the Salisbury Plains of Englan...
"The Tanks that Broke the Ranks"
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He waiata mā te hoia kāinga ngākau koingō
I Runga o ngā Puke (From the Top of the Hill...
First English hospital for wounded Kiwis
The New Zealand Military Hospital at Wa...
The Empire's Troops
Nearly three million troops from the colonie...
A New Zealander at the Battle of Jutland
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A dead teenager and life on the Somme
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Steeds and shellfire on the Western Front
The horses that were sent to the Wester...
Royal Decorations
A young Prince of Wales decorates Australian...
Going 'over the top' at Messines by John A. Lee
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The touring site covers 2 areas: a 1 acre field with a gentle slope in an orchard and a 4 acre level field adjacent to an old Cider Mill, which also doubles as a rally field. Pitches are available with or without electric hook up on both fields.
Pitch prices are inclusive of two people per night.
From Junction 2 on the M50 take the A417 to Ledbury. At the roundabout take the 3rd exit (by-pass) to the next roundabout. Turn left into Little Marcle Road, signposted to Little Marcle. Take the right turn signposted Falcon Lane and Baregains Lane. Woodside Lodges County Park is the sixth entrance on the right.
The town is well known as a picturesque and thriving market centre with a wealth of Black and White architecture, set in this most beautiful and unspoilt landscape. Situated, as it is, almost equal distance from the cathedral towns of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, and in close proximity of the M50 motorway - it is ideally positioned for exploring the countryside of Englands most rural county.
The countryside surrounding Ledbury rivals any in England and is well known for its Hopyards, Cider Orchards and Hereford Cattle. In spring there is an abundance of wild daffodils and bluebells which carpet many local woodlands.
Woodside Lodges Country Park is a landscaped park with lakes, grass and woodland managed to encourage wildlife. In addition to the Scandinavian pine wood lodges and campsite there is a modern barn converted into 5 self catering units for walkers and cyclists.
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Soulcraft, Indirectly: Reading Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos
Brian A. Smith
A reading group at Lee University in Tennessee sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has been discussing Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos, and graciously invited me to give a talk about the book. With some editing, here are my remarks on Percy's hilarious and thought-provoking satire of the self-help genre.
The late Peter Augustine Lawler called Lost in the Cosmos "self-help we can finally believe in," because every single question in the book contains an answer that is partly right. But why set out to subvert self-help?
Self-help is that distinctly American genre that purports to offer lessons for the improvement of our lives. They sketch a common problem. And they propose a solution, usually in the form of maxims, to give people the sense they've learned something crucial without telling us how to acquire the real virtues and skills that it takes to get there.
The best-case scenario that follows from reading a self-help book is that readers learn something they can use to help train themselves to real virtues. But I suspect these are outliers precisely because virtue is hard.
At worst, self-help books offer the illusion of excellence and skill, but essentially skip over the ways that self-discipline and moral character might be necessary to attract a mate (think here of the innumerable books by so-called "pick-up artists"), build a better self, or become a better salesman.
It's worth thinking the patterns of these books through, because the genre that authors write in tells us a lot about them. Percy set out to mimic the self-help style while subverting the entire genre. Lost in the Cosmos offers much more than a conventional self-help book, and Percy accomplished this through the indirect method of asking his audience multiple-choice questions.
Existential Exhaustion
In his nonfiction, one of Percy's recurring themes is the notion that words themselves have lost their meaning and value. Put another way: We live in a time—and maybe all times are like this to some degree—in which the historically-important answers people have to the big questions of life seem worn out at times, and even worse, are often unpersuasive.
He certainly doesn't mean to say that any major religious tradition is somehow diminished by this or, in his case, that the Catholic Church's teaching is any less authoritative. To say words are worn out is another way of saying that direct attempts to persuade people of the truth of any given point of theology or morality or taste often don't quite work the way we intend them.
If you want to move your audience when it comes to the deepest things in life, what can you do? You involve them in a conversation.
Lost in the Cosmos isn't exactly a conversation, but it has more in common with Socrates, Plato, and Thomas Aquinas than it does with a treatise. Platonic dialogues take opposing views seriously, as do Thomas' efforts to lay out his own reasoning. Percy's multiple choice questions serve a similar function.
The trouble with direct argument that Percy doesn't mention directly—but that's implied in the way he says "words are worn out"—is that people are very good at deflecting arguments they don't want to hear. To really accept an unsettling argument, it's not just our rational capacity that needs to be persuaded; our hearts need to be won over, too. This requires a different approach.
Percy's Indirect Soulcraft
The book opens with a pointed six-question "diagnostic" quiz, with a mix of open-ended and multiple choice questions. The first of these centers on a theme that Percy deploys throughout the book: Why is it that we have no trouble identifying Jupiter from a written description, "a large yellowish plane with a red spot and several moons," but it's easy to misread the astrology section of a newspaper (or to update the subject matter, a personality test), get the "wrong" response, and nonetheless be moved by its accuracy?
Percy notes that we can accidentally read two descriptions hypothetically meant for different people, and have the same emotional affirmation: "I'm like that." Here and in many other places in the book, Percy highlights the wide gap between the success that science has enjoyed in capturing most aspects of reality, and the near-universal failures of the humanities and social sciences to develop a similarly useful theory of life. The last thing Percy would want readers to do is walk away dismissing the humanities. The trouble that should haunt us, he says, is that we keep wanting a general theory of human anything.
The questions that follow this opening offer a sustained engagement with the many, many ways human beings find ourselves to be in a predicament we can't quite explain with the terms readily available in culture. And even more, Percy's questions catalogue the ways we evade fundamentally peculiar parts of our everyday experience. Why, he rightly asks, do so many forms of popular entertainment turn to amnesia as a plot device? What explains our horror of public speaking or of meeting new people?
The reader, in turn, might legitimately wonder what amnesia, nothingness, fashion, whether we identify with a place, being "found out," shyness, being out of place, promiscuity, envy, boredom, depression, and spiritual impoverishment might have to do with one another. At first glance, this looks like a chaotic mishmash of ideas, yet Percy sets up his audience to assess our characteristic responses to common desires, and the ways we either justify them, deny them, or evade them.
The answers Percy offers to his questions run a wide gamut. Some are darkly comic. When a saleslady declares "It's you" about an article of clothing, is it possible she means to say that "you are not much without it"? That you need the dress to become fully "you"?
Others are a summation of conventional wisdom: "It is better to seek help from a psychotherapist because it is better not to suffer than to suffer. Psychiatrists and psychologists treat disorders. Shyness is a symptom of such a disorder. Therefore it is reasonable to seek such help."
Then there are the ones that challenge the sentimental, scientific humanism that dominates our thinking nowadays. Things that people often secretly think or fear or believe, and aren't willing to admit, like the repeated questions about whether news of death and disaster offer secret charms for us. Is a UFO attack on Omaha "unrelievedly bad," or only "putatively bad but secretly not so bad"? We should say the former, but Percy wonders if our restless longings for novelty and excitement don't nudge us into feeling "not so bad" when the worst happens.
Every one of Percy's questions raises a challenge and forces us into dialogue with ourselves, or with friends if read together. This alone would make it superior to almost anything in the genre. Percy accomplishes something more, though. Nearly all of his questions also suggest that something is very wrong with the way scientists (both "hard" and "soft") study human things.
Scientism and the Lost Self
Percy interrupts the flow of questions midway through Lost in the Cosmos to offer a philosophical essay. He tells his readers that it can be skipped without losing much, but he's lying.
This "Semiotic Primer of the Self" presents a theory of language and consciousness. It's not quite a fully formed theory of the human person. But it serves rhetorically as something like a state of nature: a theory anyone, with almost any first principles, could take up as his or her own. The primer also offers an answer to another important question: What kinds of theories should the sciences use to describe human action?
Percy argues that minimally, any workable theories of the human person need to account for the difference between what he labels dyadic and triadic events.
Dyadic events are moments where we can trace material causes and effects. Special properties might emerge from a large number of such events, but what makes a dyadic event essentially dyadic is the two-part simplicity in the chain of causation. We should analyze chemical reactions, collisions of matter in motion, and the way animals respond to their environment with dyadic thinking. Animals can learn signals to communicate; to the degree apes and birds can be taught words, they use them in ways predictable through dyadic science. What makes this kind of analysis valuable is that when it is done rightly, the scientist can adequately address their subject without losing anything essential about it.
This is not true when we use dyadic analysis to theorize about human life. The symbols human beings use to communicate and shape our world are of an altogether different order of complexity. Using dyadic analysis here forces us to reduce the human person to a lower order of complexity than is actually adequate to describe consciousness and language.
What Percy terms "triadic" behavior involves the use of symbols: triadic because the individual relationships between each part of our language cannot be explained by reducing it to its constituent parts.
What's crucial about this is that human beings create worlds of ideas, filled with images and concepts only partially captured by the words we use to describe them. In other words, there's a big difference between responding to an environment as an animal does, and the way people do. Where an environment is an entirely objective thing governed only by laws of nature, worlds are partially shaped by the language we use to describe them, and never quite fully capture our experiences. This is the basis for the beauty of poetry; for Percy, it's also a significant reason for our alienation.
This phenomenon is the source of much misery, as we who can objectively know so many things are essentially unknowable to ourselves. Percy writes:
From the moment the signifying self turned inward and became conscious of itself, trouble began as sparks flew up. No one knows how such a state of affairs came to pass, except through the wisdom (or folly) of religion and myth.
But what happens when we have neither faith nor a usable tradition that can help us navigate around our predicament?
The Unsteady, Oscillating Human Person
Percy paints a picture of human beings as essentially unstable, unable to hew to a steady course. The evasions I mentioned earlier take many different forms, but he suggests that they tend toward seeking complete immanence or transcendence.
Immanence itself takes many forms, but it involves immersing ourselves in some aspect of our embodied experience. The best way to describe it is by contrast. Animals are totally "themselves" and there is no gap between their bodies and their selves. We rarely enjoy that luxury, so what we do is lose ourselves to try to prove we're really there. Sometimes this is with other people—we consume them—and sometimes we erase ourselves in alcohol or drugs. Percy implies that when we do this, we're erasing the problems our souls can't quite name.
At the opposite pole, he says there is a mode of acting and thinking we can call transcendence. Whether we pursue it through art or science, Percy suggests that it occurs when we throw ourselves intellectually and spiritually into forces beyond ourselves. Since most people aren't scientists or artists, we're left with consumption (of things, places, and people), committing ourselves to causes we see as larger than ourselves, or seeking satisfaction in work. By attempting to live around a flawed ideal like that provided in conventional self-help books, people exacerbate their confusion. In the process, we surrender something of ourselves to those who know in order that they can help us, only to end up feeling more lost than we felt before.
Our unwillingness to confront the challenges of living well as an embodied soul—neither a transcending angel nor an immanent beast—leads us into some dark places. To his credit, Percy doesn't shy away from forcing his readers to look at the most disturbing consequences of our conflicting desires. Indeed, the latter half of the book is preoccupied with little else. In those later sections, he sets out an understanding of what happens to people who become possessed by bad theory:
The fact is that, by virtue of its peculiar relationship to the world, to others, and to its own organism, the autonomous self in a modern technological society is possessed. It is possessed by the spirit of the erotic and the secret love of violence.
The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology.
Percy tells us most people swing back and forth between the extremes of transcendence and immanence and rarely pause to reflect on these tendencies. It might well be that the scientists have the best lot; at least they can still lay claim to some kind of truth. But even the scientists have it pretty bad: Many can't explain why they live the way they do, and try to explain their triadic lives in a dyadic key. A devaluation of life naturally follows.
Many people I know were incredibly depressed throughout graduate school. My sense is that some of them were trying to live two lives: one as a social scientist, trying to understand our world and our lives together through theories that reduced them to dyadic terms, and the other as a human being with a sense of one's own rights and feelings. You can't live like this without going a little crazy. And we're living in a world filled with people who are doing things just like this, often without quite realizing it.
Percy gives us a language for understanding how this came to pass, and sense of how to get by as wayfarers while we're here. Lost in the Cosmos offers help for a people left behind by the fads that dominate our lives today, but not the kind of help we expect from a self-help book—which is precisely what makes it worth reading today.
Thirty-five years after its publication, Lost in the Cosmos still offers profound lessons in politics and living life well.
The War on Satire, Brought to You by Social Justice Warriors
Brian A. Smith is the managing editor of Law & Liberty. He is the author of Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Lexington Books, 2017). Before joining Law & Liberty, he taught politics and great books at Montclair State University from 2009-2018. He tweets at @briansmith1980.
Prophets for Our Age of Suicide
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Every age needs prophets—whether or not they heed their cautions—because prophets stand out of and often against the current.
An Age of Theory and Consumption
To grapple with the highs and the lows of the human condition requires we reunite body and soul—to reknit what Descartes torn asunder.
How to Think About the Birth Dearth
Peter Augustine Lawler


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Hockey Alberta will be hosting the 2019 National Coaching Certification Program High Performance 1 Seminar in Red Deer, July 16-21.
The 2019 NCCP High Performance 1 Seminar will include professional speakers in the delivery of sessions including special teams, planning to perform, offensive/defensive team play, goaltending, game and bench management, ethics in coaching, teambuilding and many more.
In addition to presentations and tasks, the selected coaches will run on-ice sessions and coach on the bench in game situations. The NCCP High Performance 1 coaches will be guided by some of the best leaders and mentors in Canada.
This year's seminar will be run in conjunction with AJHL Development Camp featuring. This will provide practical learning opportunities and aid in the development of our coaches.
The High Performance 1 Seminar is a full week with long days and coaches will need to be committed and prepared upon their arrival. The seminar will include both individual and group tasks and assignments that will be used to support the delegates in becoming a fully certified High Performance 1 Coach.
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Bad Bosses: Professor Writes About Toxic Leadership
By Lauren Gilger
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LAUREN GILGER: From powerful CEOs, like Steve Jobs, to now presidential hopeful Senator Amy Klobuchar, it seems lots of powerful leaders are accused of being bad bosses. Last month, the Huffington Post reported that many of Klobuchar's former staffers described her as demeaning and even cruel in the workplace. But it's not just powerful leaders who are toxic, according to our next guest. There are all kinds of bad bosses. In fact, Harvard University's Barbara Kellerman has dedicated her career to studying leaders of all kinds. She's broken them down into seven categories that range from incompetent, to corrupt, to even evil. And she says this is a wide ranging social problem that has not been paid enough attention. I spoke with Kellerman about this and first asked about the systems that allow for it. Is this about the kind of power structures that are set up around leadership? Or is it about the kind of person that is able to get into a position of power?
BARBARA KELLERMAN: Well you're asking the right person the right question because I never talk about just leaders. I always talk about the leadership system. So to me, there are three components of the leadership system. One is the leader. The other are, as I suggested a few minutes ago, the followers or the others. Some people don't like the word followers. So I'll simply say the others. And the third is the context or the situation within which leaders and followers find themselves. Sometimes the most obvious context is a community, sometimes the most obvious context is an organization or the workplace. Sometimes it's a small unit, sometimes it's a large unit. But you cannot understand bad leadership or toxic leadership or evil leadership or inept leadership or bad bosses simply as isolated individuals. Inevitably, they are embedded in a system that allows them to continue to do what they're doing, which is in one or another way, to behave badly.
GILGER: Yeah. So when you look at reports like these that are levied against presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar right now, for example, is it surprising the reaction that's coming to this? There's sort of been this debate, right, that is this may be sexist to call her an abusive boss?
KELLERMAN: So that has, in the case of Senator Amy Klobuchar, come up quite a bit. The issue of if the same behaviors were demonstrated by a man, would they be as offensive? So I have two responses to that. The first one is yes, there is a difference in how male bosses and female bosses are judged. Yes, it is correct to say that female bosses are judged more harshly and we are quicker so to speak, "jump on women," who seem to be too aggressive or snappy or bossy in their behavior. Having said that, the New York Times recently had a report having interviewed more than two dozen staffers, and those staffers did come up with enough instances of bad boss behavior on the part of Senator Klobuchar, that as I wrote in my blog, I think she's in many ways an attractive centrist candidate. But I would be, I personally — this is just me speaking not as a political scientist but as an American citizen — would be very reluctant to vote for someone who I felt was a bad boss. I have myself very strong feelings about bad bosses. I call them "petty tyrants" and I have come to believe having studied the subject for many years that it is easy enough to be reasonably civil in the workplace, and there is no reason, none, for superiors in the workplace to give subordinates in the workplace a hard time. There are ways of being critical while at the same time being constructive, and if you have someone, so to speak, beneath you who is not competent then it's time to talk to them in a serious way privately but not constantly publicly to humiliate and berate them.
GILGER: So you would be a little reluctant to put somebody like that in a position of power. But it seems like people like this are often in positions of power. Is there an aspect of personality type here, that people who are going to be maybe abusive to their employees tend to be more successful, tend to get farther because they're maybe ruthless?
KELLERMAN: I don't think they're more successful. I don't think there's any evidence that bad bosses are more successful. There is evidence to suggest that when people get power, they become more of something. So, for example, they become less able to control their impulse to be abusive to subordinates. For example, they become less able to control their impulse to, if they're males, to harass women. So there is evidence that there's an old saying, which you probably have heard Lauren, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It does appear to be the case that when people gain power, especially if it's considerable power, they become badly behaved in ways they were not when they were earlier in their professional or in their leadership lives.
GILGER: Okay so then the final question is what can you do if you are one of these employees and you have a toxic boss or a leader in your organization who is bad — is there anything you can do?
KELLERMAN: Well there is evidence that a bad boss can be really bad for your health. And I would say that if you are in a situation, you're in a workplace, where your boss is really giving you high stress and there is nothing internally you can do about it, you might want to consider changing jobs. However, whenever I'm asked that question I'm very careful because not everybody can change jobs, but I would say there are some strategies, there are ways of talking to a bad boss, there are ways of organizing with some other people in the workplace. So this is not a situation that is impossible to contemplate. It is a situation that is common enough so that people in the field of leadership should pay it considerably more attention than they already do.
GILGER: Alright. Barbara Kellerman is with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. Barbara, thank you so much for coming on The Show.
KELLERMAN: My pleasure.
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The New Low Cost Outsourcing Location: USA?
When I had 4 people in 2 weeks confirm that companies have been shifting calls from Canadian outsourcers back to the US because the US dollar's slide was making the costs of "near shore" outsourcing too expensive, I suspected something was brewing. And yesterday, when over 400 people registered for our SSPA Webcast entitled "Onshore vs. Offshore Support: Why Domestic Providers are Winning," I knew we had hit on a hot topic.
The enterprise application vendors have been touting their SOA (service oriented architecture) platforms and ecosystems for a few years now, but there was something that always bothered me: the creator of the SOA platform shouldn't also be the provider of the applications that run on the platform. To use an example I've heard applied to Microsoft over the years: the guy who provides electricity shouldn't also determine the size and shape of electric plugs.
I receive a lot of requests for briefings from emerging customer support software vendors, and a recent request from IntelliResponse caught my attention because of this line: "Our unique competitive differentiation is our 'One Right Answer' approach, versus all of our competitors who utilize search based paradigms." Because of the huge popularity of Google, many vendors in this space are creating a 'Google-like' search experience, which is great when you are researching a topic, but not so good when you have a specific question or problem and need the One Right Answer, not a scrolling page of thousands of possibilities.
Exempt or Non-Exempt, That Is The Question!
Disclaimer: John Ragsdale is not qualified to give legal advice about personnel and salary issues and this post should be taken as input, not a directive. Please work with your HR professional to clarify how workplace legislation applies to your environment.
OK, glad that's out of the way! I started my career as a tech support agent in 1985 (thank you for telling me I don't look that old) as an hourly worker. We were paid night time differential for shifts past 7pm and of course overtime when we had to "take a customer home" and work very late or early on a particular 'hard down' problem. When I moved to Silicon Valley ten years later, tech support agents at high tech startups were salaried workers and in those days we all worked 80 hour weeks and sleeping under your desk was not uncommon…and it never occurred to any of us we should be paid overtime. It was a cultural thing, not a legal issue.
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This post comes late, it's been quite hard to get to a computer with a new baby in the house.
He is quite the cutie, very quite, VERY good. I help when I can.
All is well, I get to visit my first Vancouver wedding this weekend. Will keep you posted. Hope your trip is going as well.
awww wat an angel..your new one is!!!
I just got a twinge in my ovary. What an absolute cutie!
Hope you are all well, and settling back home.


The Walking Dead season 9 episode 7 airs Sunday at 9:00 PM EST on AMC. The episode is called "Stradivarius" and it will run around the usual 45 minutes (-/+ commercials). Currently, The Walking Dead has a 8.4 rating on IMDb. Here is everything you need to know about tonight's episode, including where and how to watch it online for free, without a cable subscription. Also, find out if The Walking Dead renewed or canceled for new season.
Carol seeks out an old friend living alone in a wilderness teeming with walkers; survivors make the perilous trek to a new home. Tonight's episode starts in .
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Every entrepreneur hits the point. The point where growth is slowing, there's discord or miscommunication amongst the team, and you can't seem to get a win.
The good news is you're not alone. This happens to every business owner eventually. The bad news is not every entrepreneur is able to turn their business around when they get there.
As the business owner, you know profit is the fuel that drives your business. So it makes sense that — when you start to slow down — the answer is to double-down on the accelerator. More sales and more money will mean more growth and happier teams, right? Not always.
Here are five surprising things that might be holding back your business, sales, and overall growth.
The customer's experience is important, but so is your team's experience. What does the day-to-day look like for them right now? Is it a highly tense, toxic-energy environment? Do people feel empowered to try (and sometimes fail) new ways of improving their work? Culture starts at the top, and healthy cultures make healthy businesses.
Your Purple Cow, a phrase defined and popularized by Seth Godin's book of the same title, is the one major thing that sets you apart. Chances are, you're not the only business that provides your service. If you're a personal trainer, what sets you apart from all the other personal trainers in your town? That's your purple cow. Maybe it's that you send daily encouragement texts to clients or run 5Ks with them… whatever it is, tell people about it.
Hiring well is one of the hardest parts of the entrepreneurial journey. If you're experiencing unexpected turnover, or find yourself getting burned by untrustworthy people time after time, look at your hiring process. Don't be afraid to interview a candidate as many times as you want, pay them for test/sample projects, and ask for personality test results. When you've got the right people in place, you can get back to focusing on growth.
With most small or entrepreneur-run businesses, the bad processes are the silent killers. You get used to workarounds and inefficient systems because you're a team of one and doing everything yourself. But as your business grows, your processes need to grow, too. Creating a new, streamlined approach to work isn't always fun for the dreamer and visionary entrepreneur, but trust us, the front-end work will save you time, money, and heartache in the long run.
The first impression of your business can often be a lasting impression. What's someone's first interaction with your business? Is it a friendly and welcoming front desk greeter? A kind (read: not-pushy) customer service associate? A website that is clean, easy-to-navigate and reflects your brand? If you're noticing a slow in growth, trace the customer's experience starting with their first impression. It's an exercise in humility and empathy.
Your social media accounts are an extension of your first impression. How do they contribute and add value to your customers' lives? If your Instagram feed looks like a billboard, reconsider your approach.
If your business is starting to stall, resist slamming on the accelerator. Tap the brakes a bit and take a look at the entire picture. When those five areas are operating at their best, the sales should follow.


I've been trying unsuccessfully to find any indication of how the Moto G, the low-cost smartphone from Motorola is selling. I'm interested in how well their strategy, that is selling mid-spec smartphones at low-end prices by foregoing profits, is working. I strongly suspect that it is not, but I need data to verify that.
In the meantime, I found this funny article by Rolfe Winker for the Wall Street Journal. It describes very well the almost comical confusion and utter lack of coherent strategy at Google-Motorola. I've quoted some parts of it below.
OK. So the strategy is to undercut rivals on price.
Analysts say that low off-contract pricing is likely to have a bigger impact outside the U.S., where a larger share of smartphone users buy their phones directly, rather than by signing wireless contracts.
Now such a strategy will work best outside of the U.S. It won't make much difference in the U.S.
The Moto X is sold only in North and South America, and the new lower price is only available in the U.S. for now.
Uh oh. But the lower price is only going to be available for the U.S.
Brand, distribution and product breadth are critical to sales volumes, and here Moto falls desperately behind [Samsung] still.
If this is true and I suspect that it is, we can also expect the sales of the Moto G to also be rather insignificant, adding to the long list of Google branded products that saw major hype, but failed to sell well.


The meaning of the Seven Seals Scroll is one of the most debated questions about the book of Revelation. Many interpret the Scroll as a title deed, while others believe that it is a will or secret prophecies, or a book of judgments or something else.
This first phrase of the Apocalypse of John is the theme and narrative of the book of Revelation. The unveiling of Jesus Christ to the world and all the events that lead up to this unveiling and all the events that result from this unveiling is what the last book of the Bible is all about. This apocalypse (to unveil) is also what the Scroll with Seven Seals is about.
In Revelation 5 the Great Commission is completed as the fullness of the Gentiles has come in (Romans 11:25). Christ has accomplished His goal of creating a kingdom of believers from all nations: "Worthy are you to take the Book and to break its seals; for you were slain and purchased for God with your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth." Revelation 5:9-10.
The breaking of the Scroll's Seven Seals is completed with the Seventh Trumpet of the Seventh Seal. It's contents are then revealed, and it is this moment which can tell us the meaning of the Scroll with Seven Seals. Just before the Seventh Trumpet is sounded, another mighty angel declares: "There will be delay no longer, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached (gave, announced, declared) to His servants the prophets." Revelation 10:7.
The breaking of all the seals and the opening of the Scroll finishes the mystery of God which He declared to the prophets. The Mystery of God as given to the prophets is the meaning of the Scroll with Seven Seals.
We solved one mystery with another mystery. Now we have to solve that one. The Mystery of God is another of those Revelation enigmas that there a lot of debate on and little broad agreement about among Evangelicals. Despite such disagreement, the Mystery of God should not be a mystery to believers.
"When you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men. ...the mystery which has for ages been hidden in God." Ephesians 3:4,5,9.
"This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the Church." Ephesians 5:32.
"The mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations ...which is Christ in you the hope of glory." Colossians 1:26,27.
"Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but is manifested. and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all nations..." Romans 16:25-26.
The Mighty Angel says the Mystery of God was declared by the prophets. Paul says the mystery of Jesus Christ was made known by the Scriptures of the prophets.
With this we can solve the meaning of the Scroll. In short, the Scroll with Seven Seals is the writings of the prophets which declare the Mystery of God, which is Christ and the Church. At the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet Jesus Christ and the Church will be revealed to every eye and so the Mystery of God which was hidden for ages will be finished, no longer a mystery: "Behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him,,," Revelation 1:7.
"But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery,,, the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood... For to us God revealed them through the Spirit..." I Corinthians 2:7,10.
"But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil is taken away." II Corinthians 4:15.
"For judgment I have come into the world so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." John 9:39.
Daniel was told, "But as for you Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time (or time of the end)." Daniel 12:4. Daniel's prophesies about Jesus Christ are part of that Scroll with Seven Seals which has been sealed until the time of the end when the Lord breaks the seals and then unveils the Mystery for all the world to see. All the other writing of the Hebrew prophets from Moses to Malachi which spoke of Christ and the Church in parables, symbols and prophecies are represented in the Seven Seal Scroll as well.
Israel marched around Jericho with the ark of the covenant for seven days blowing their trumpets each time. On the seventh day they marched around the city seven times and when they blew the seventh trumpet they gave a shout and the walls fell down. We see a perfect picture here of the Seven Seals and the Seven Trumpets of Revelation. Rahab the harlot, a type of the Church was taken safely out after the Seventh Trumpet on the Seventh Day just as the Church will be raptured at the Seventh Trumpet of the Seventh Seal when the Lord returns. This story from the book of Joshua may be one of those prophecies written in the Scroll with Seven Seals.
This great mystery of the ages as written in the Prophets and sealed up in the Seven Seal Scroll will be unveiled for every eye to see at the appearance of Jesus Christ on the clouds and the rapture of the Church at the Seventh Trumpet.
The Seals are not the opening of the Scroll, the seals are the prerequisite which must be met before the contents of the Scroll can be unveiled. The Seven Seals are a test: "...to test those who dwell on the earth." Revelation 3:10. They are not wrath or judgment or the Day of the Lord. The catastrophes of the Seals come from Satan and the Beast, not from God. They are a test of the realities of the beliefs of everyone in the world, but especially of the Church.
Hananiah, Michael and Azariah were put to the test when the king of Babylon commanded all the world to bow down and worship the golden image. They refused and so were thrown into the fiery furnace. As the king looked into the flames, he saw a fourth man and said "...the appearance of the fourth is like the son of the gods!" Daniel 3:25. Nebuchadnezzer saw the Lord in the flames and realized that the God of Daniel's friends was the true God. The three walked out of the fiery furnace but those who threw them in were killed. The furnace was heated seven times hotter, marking it as a type of the Seven Seal Tribulation.
The story of Job is a prophetic picture of the Tribulation period as well. Job is tested by various catastrophic plagues of Satan while his friends challenge the genuineness of his faith. In the end God appears and reveals Himself as El Shaddai, God Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Job is restored with greater riches than He had before while his friends come under judgment. Just as God gave Satan permission to test Job, the Lamb in opening the seals, will give Satan permission to test the whole world by the events of the Tribulation.
The Seven Seals of the Tribulation is a test to show who is the true Lord of the Universe and who are God's true people. The whole world will be put to the test to prove that Jesus is Lord and the Church are the true people of God, not the followers of the Beast or any other faith.
The test on Mt Carmel is also a prophetic picture of the test of the Seven Seals of the Tribulation. During the reign of the wicked king Ahab and his Baal worshipping wife Jezebel, Israel was devastated by drought, famine, persecutions, apostasy, murder, tyranny and idolatry. The prophet Elijah proposed a test of two sacrificial alters to see who's god would show up to light the sacrifice: Baal or Jehovah. The 450 prophets of Baal pleaded all day, even cutting themselves with no results. Elijah then repaired the broken alter of Israel, put the sacrifice on it, and even poured water over it three times. He then called on the Lord and fire fell from heaven and burned up the sacrifice and the entire alter as well. In the test on Mount Carmel, the prophets of Baal were defeated and the Lord revealed Himself to Israel as the One True God.
"When the people saw it they fell on their faces; and they said, 'The Lord He is God; the Lord, He is God." I Kings 18:39.
During the test of the Tribulation, the Kingdom of the World under the Antichrist will be defeated and Jesus Christ will reveal Himself as the One True Lord.
"…at the name of Jesus every knee will bow…and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord…" Philippians 2:10-11.
The Lord will bring the Church safely through the Tribulation while those who worship the statue of the Beast and wear his mark will be destroyed. Then will Jesus Christ appear on the clouds at the Seventh Trumpet to rapture the Church. Everyone, even the followers of the Beast, will see with their own eyes that Jesus Christ is the Creator of the universe and born-again Christians are His people; realizing in the process that they about to be judged: "And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, 'fall on us and hide us from the One who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of Their wrath has come and who is able to stand?"" Revelation 6:16-17.
Daniel passed the test of the lion's den and was promoted. His three friends passed the test of the fiery furnace and were promoted. The king of Babylon was weighed in the scales and found wanting in the famous writing on the wall: "'MENE – God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it. 'TEKEL' – you have been weighed in the scales and found deficient. 'PERES' – your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians." Daniel 5: 26-27. The beast and his followers will fail the test of the Seven Seals, lose the kingdom of the world and come under the judgment of the Seven Golden Bowls of Wrath.
The Church that the Lord Jesus bought with His own blood out of every nation will emerge victorious from the Tribulation: "And they overcame him (the dragon) because of the blood of the Lamb ad because of the world of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even when faced with death. ...those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name..." Revelation 12:11, 15:2.
The Seven Seal Scroll is the Mystery of God hidden in the writings of the prophets. The Seals are the prerequisite test before the Mystery of the Scroll can be unveiled. The Mystery of God is Christ and the Church who will be revealed at the Seventh Trumpet after the test of the Tribulation is completed. Every eye will then see the Lord Jesus coming on the clouds and see the Rapture of the Church, finishing the Mystery of God as it is written of in the Scroll with Seven Seals. The Church will emerge victorious from the Seven Seal Tribulation just as Daniel's three friends emerged victorious from the fiery furnace and proved that their God was the true God who alone is sovereign over the affairs of men and has the exclusive right to set up a kingdom over all the earth.


New Delhi: Renewable energy service company Magenta Power today announced it will set up India's first electric vehicles charging Corridor called ChargeIn at Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
The corridor will be a network of EV charging stations and will be initially deployed at Hotel Center Point at Lonavala. In the next phase, the network will be extended to Bangalore and Mysore allowing electric vehicle users to travel across the stretch without worrying about next charging station.
The company had last month installed the country's first solar power-based EV charging station in Navi Mumbai. "ChargeIn will be a fully integrated network of charging points including AC and DC chargers. All the ChargeIn points will be connected via network for central monitoring and control," the company said in a statement.
Initially, some of the stations will have automated payment systems so that users can charge vehicles using an online OTP-based payment mechanism using the ChargeIn app. This payment system will be deployed in all the charging stations in a phased manner.
"ChargeIn plans to encompass charging stations for 2-wheelers, 3-wheelers, 4-wheelers and bus fleets. While this network of charging stations will open up the 'electric highways' in India, it will also provide a unique employment opportunity for charging station owners who can man and support the stations," said Maxson Lewis, Chief Executive and Managing Director, Magenta Power.
The company said it is in talks with potential investors to support growth plans as it continues to set up the network in the asset-intensive business.


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Q: import lightgbm returned non-zero exit status 2 I am running Windows 10. Today I installed lightgbm through anaconda using
conda install -c conda-forge lightgbm
However, when I tried to import lightgbm (running Jupyter Notebook), I got the following error trace:
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CalledProcessError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-5dacb4a27011> in <module>
----> 1 import lightgbm as lgb

D:\RI\0Teaching Materials\QTDM-II\P30 LGBM\lightgbm.py in <module>
     10
     11 from subprocess import check_output
---> 12 print(check_output(["ls", "../input"]).decode("utf8"))
     13
     14 # Any results you write to the current directory are saved as output.

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in check_output(timeout, *popenargs, **kwargs)
    334
    335     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
--> 336                **kwargs).stdout
    337
    338

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in run(input, timeout, check, *popenargs, **kwargs)
    416         if check and retcode:
    417             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
--> 418                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
    419     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
    420

CalledProcessError:Command '['ls', '../input']' returned non-zero exit status 2.

What is preventing me from importing lightgbm?
Update:- Thinking that this is a Windows issue, I installed Anaconda on Ubuntu (Oracle VB) and tried import. Unfortunately, same error occurred in this environment too. What could be behind this?

A: It looks like you have D:\RI\0Teaching Materials\QTDM-II\P30 LGBM\ in your PYTHONPATH, you can check it in the notebook by:
import sys
print(sys.path)

or on commandline
echo %PYTHONPATH%

The directory will be in the python path if you start the notebook in that directory.
Because you have that directory in the python path, when you try to import module lightgbm, python is finding lightgbm.py file and then imports it, and in that file you have code that is shelling out to 'ls ../input' and you do not have 'ls' on Windows, hence the error. Second possibility is that the ls command can not see ../input because file does not exist. this does not mater, issue is still that import statement is finding lightgbm.py file before it finds the lightgbm module that you have installed with conda and actually want to import. (Hacky fix would be to rename lightgbm.py to something else)
Fix your PYTHONPATH, you can unset it following: https://superuser.com/questions/949560/how-do-i-set-system-environment-variables-in-windows-10

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NHBS acquires British Wildlife and Conservation Land Management magazines
News British Wildlife Magazine CLM
In March 2016, NHBS acquired the two magazines British Wildlife and Conservation Land Management from Bloomsbury Publishing.
Since it s launch in 1989, British Wildlife has established its position as the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiasts and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. There is no other publication that offers such high-quality, authoritative, well-researched and accessible articles on such a wide range of subjects.
Origi nally published by Natural England, Conservation Land Management is a quarterly magazine designed for those involved in managing land. Articles focus on a wide range of issues, using up-to-date case studies to support practical solutions. Additional information, including costings, materials and equipment, is presented in easy-to-follow boxes and diagrams.
Both magazines were published until 2013 by British Wildlife Publishing under the direction of Andrew Branson, and have now found a permanent home with NHBS.
NHBS founder Bernard Mercer about the acquisition of British Wildlife:
"We are thrilled and honoured to be the publisher of one of the great assets of the British wildlife, natural history, conservation and ecology world, and will do all in our power to continue the high-quality papers, articles, news and opinion for which it is known."
The administration of the magazines will move to NHBS over the coming weeks; if you are a subscriber to British Wildlife or Conservation Land Management, please rest assured that there will be no interruption to your subscription.


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Think your horse has been poisoned?
Remove your horse(s) from the source of poison.
Contact your vet immediately; inform them when, where and how the poisoning occurred.
If appropriate, carefully retain the packaging, plant or substance to show to the vet. Be careful not to expose yourself to any harm.
If you are advised to take your horse(s) to the vet, do so quickly and calmly.
Never attempt to treat or medicate your horse(s) yourself. Some medicines for humans and other animals may be poisonous to your horse.
If the skin or fur is contaminated, wash thoroughly with mild shampoo and water, rinse well and dry.
Keep your horse(s) away from any other animals to avoid cross contamination.
Never watch and wait. If you suspect your horse has been poisoned, act fast and contact a vet immediately.
Symptoms of poisoning in horses may include: abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhoea, straining, rectal prolapse, weight loss, restlessness, unsteadiness, blindness, breathing difficulties, head pressing, problems swallowing, lethargy, tremors, twitching and fitting, collapse, loss of appetite, colic, depression, high temperature and laminitis (inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse).
Symptoms may not appear immediately, or may develop rapidly. Some horses go on to develop kidney or liver damage, and sudden deaths can occur.
Ensure all areas are free from, and not overhung by, poisonous plants.
Ensure water cannot become contaminated, and change it regularly.
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Ensure adequate and appropriate food/forage is available to reduce the likelihood for eating other vegetation. Some feeds intended for other animals may not be appropriate for horses.
Ensure riders, carers and visitors are informed about potential poisonous hazards to your horse(s). Don't allow them to feed inappropriate food items.
Read more about some of the most common horse poisons.
Acknowledgement for this information is made to the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS).
Find out more about the most common potentially serious horse, pony and donkey poisons.


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Q: Cocoa restrict window move area? I'm new to cocoa.
I got an application in Windows with have MDI Child. Now i need to port it to MACOS. I known Mac doesn't have that kind of MDI Child so i try to set the child window can only move inside the main window only. Is that possible ?

A: Is it possible? Sure. Should you do it? No. The Mac does not have an MDI interface in the Windows sense, and you shouldn't try to fake it.
Ditch the parent window entirely. If there are toolbars or palettes in the main window, make them floating panels on the Mac. The child windows on Windows should simply be top-level windows on the Mac.


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Comcast SportsNet announced today the network will air a record 145 Phillies games during the 2016 season, including the season opener on Monday, April 4 at 4 p.m.against the Cincinnati Reds. NBC10 airs 10 games, including the home opener on Monday, April 11 at 3 p.m. against the San Diego Padres. The Comcast Network will carry seven regular season games.
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Broadcasters Tom McCarthy, Matt Stairs, Ben Davis and Gregg Murphy return for their second season in the booth. Mike Schmidt will also return for home weekend game broadcasts.
Starting in Spring Training and going throughout the season, Phillies fans can catch the latest team developments and analysis from Comcast SportsNet, NBC10, The Comcast Network and CSNPhilly.com anchors, reporters and Insiders during "Breakfast on Broad," "Philly Sports Talk," "SportsNet Central," NBC10 newscasts, and online at CSNPhilly.com. Fans can interact with every show on Twitter by using the hashtag #PhilliesTalk.
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