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New York|No 'Inner City' in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Just Overlooked Strengths
No 'Inner City' in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Just Overlooked Strengths
Murals by Brownsville Matters near Belmont Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn.CreditCreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times
By Ginia Bellafante
One recent morning, Nadia Lopez, a Brooklyn middle-school principal who became an internet celebrity two years ago — and as a result has been a guest of Ellen DeGeneres, Barack Obama and Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard, as well as an author — received a flood of text messages from family and friends who were outraged by an article in The Daily News titled "Brownsville Is Brooklyn's Worst Neighborhood for Children." For seven years, Ms. Lopez has run Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brownsville to great acclaim, having gained national attention when the blog Humans of New York profiled a student who talked about what a profound influence she was.
Part of the challenge of working in low-income urban communities is the fight against the perception that they are doomed and immiserating, an exercise that has required more energy in the age of President Trump, who has made use of the loaded term "inner city" to invoke the image of nightmare places where death always comes at gunpoint and schools are always synonymous with failure. The News's article was pegged to a new report from the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, a nonprofit advocacy group whose purpose was to highlight both the deficits in Brownsville — its 40 percent poverty rate, nearly twice that of New York City on the whole, has remained unchanged during Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration — and its strengths, which are easy for outsiders to overlook.
Nadia Lopez is the principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brownsville, Brooklyn.CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times
When I visited Ms. Lopez in her office to talk about what has changed in Brownsville and what hasn't over the past several years, she spoke about how disheartening it was to see constant attacks in the news media, ones she believes were then internalized by children who would see themselves as hopeless and without value. Her mission involves a deft finesse between showing children the larger world of affluence — she takes students to stores and restaurants in Park Slope and Williamsburg so that they might know how the salumi half lives — and inculcating in them a sense of investment in their own neighborhood, so they might aspire to do well but ultimately return to the place they were brought up and improve it.
"If kids have access and exposure they can change a trajectory," she said, "but you can't know what to ask for until you know what there is to want." When Ms. Lopez takes the children through moneyed Brooklyn, they are consistently amazed that you can go to a store where the candy isn't behind plexiglass and eat in restaurants where you sit down and the food is actually brought to you.
Inside the cafe 3 Black Cats, which was started by three sisters who grew up in Brownsville.CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times
For years, residents of Brownsville have complained that there is virtually no such place in their neighborhood — nowhere to go to share a meal for a birthday or anniversary. This spring, a culinary institute that will train people who live in the area for food careers without charging tuition will open on Belmont Avenue with a restaurant conceived in part by the renowned Danish chef Claus Meyer. The restaurant is not intended as a place for 25-year-olds venturing over from Bushwick on the L train, but for people who live in the neighborhood, and the prices will reflect the market.
All along Belmont Avenue, in fact, are signs of revitalization that do not resonate with the horrors of gentrification, a reality to which Brownsville is largely immune because of a high concentration of public housing and an absence of the kind of townhouses that have shifted the fortunes of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Last summer, with the support of the Dream Big Foundation, a nonprofit that assists new businesses in poorer parts of the city, a large, modernist-looking cafe opened called 3 Black Cats. It was started by three sisters — Diana, Ionna and Melissa Jiminez — who grew up in Brownsville until their building was torn down and they had to move to public housing in Williamsburg. Diana had always loved to bake and sold her cakes through an informal network of friends and neighbors that then expanded through social media.
Quardean Lewis-Allen started Made in Brownsville, a nonprofit that trains young adults in creative fields like graphic and product design.CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times
The cafe has held at least one fashion show and invited local musicians to perform, and it holds classes in entrepreneurship. One of the most promising ideas generated from those classes, Pernell S. Brice III, Dream Big's executive director, told me, came from a woman who is trying to build, as he put, "Amazon for prisons." Having had relatives in the system, and with expertise on what is needed and the special requirements of packaging prison shipments, the woman is devising a plan for a company that would offer inmates a catalog of things — books, shoes without any metal — that they would use while they are away.
Down the block from 3 Cats is Made in Brownsville, the venture of Quardean Lewis-Allen, who grew up in the neighborhood and came back after getting a degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Made in Brownsville is a nonprofit that trains 14- to 24-year-olds in graphic and product design, videography and other marketable means of communication, offering apprenticeships from which they can build well-paying creative careers.
Mr. Lewis-Allen has been an important presence in the neighborhood, overseeing local students who designed a youth center from a shipping container, which will soon open on an empty patch of grass on Chester Street. He has developed a meme, too: #NotGentrification #JustGood.
Not long ago he had a group of students survey residents about what they wanted on Belmont Avenue, which historically had been a major shopping thoroughfare. Overwhelmingly, he said, they wanted fewer churches and more places to sit and have coffee.
The Big City column on the cover in some editions this weekend, about new business and community efforts in Brownsville, Brooklyn, misstates the ages of participants in Made in Brownsville, a nonprofit that gives young people exposure to creative careers. They are 14 to 24 years old, not 18 to 24 years old.
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For the reasonable visitation approach to succeed, the parents must cooperate and communicate with each other frequently. If you suspect right off the bat that reasonable visitation won't work, insist on a fixed schedule and save yourself time, angst, and possibly money. If you've already agreed to reasonable visitation and it isn't working out -- for example, one parent is consistently late, skips scheduled visits or doesn't inform the other parent where he or she is planning on taking the children -- you can go back to court and ask that the arrangement be changed.


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Greater Brisbane Junior Tennis (GBJT) has developed a Risk Management Strategy (RMS) which is available from the centre supervisor.
adopt the practices and behaviours set by Tennis Australiaas the expected standard when carrying out their roles (including the MPP).
implement screening measures to ensure only appropriate persons work with children.
deal with alleged offending behaviour of harassment, abuse and discrimination.
In the event of a Player, Parent or Official becoming aware of a matter or incident that needs to be reported, the GBJT Member Protection Officer is Mr Peter Davis. A matter or incident can also be reported to the Secretary or Treasurer of GBJT.


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var sw = require("../Common/node/swagger.js"),
	param = require("../Common/node/paramTypes.js"),
	swe = sw.errors,
	User = require('../models/user.js');

/**
* List methods
*/
exports.getAllUsers = {
	'spec': {
		description : "List all phone users",
		path : "/user/list",
		method: "GET",
		summary : "List all phone users",
		notes : "Returns a list of all phone users",
		type : "User",
		nickname : "getAllUsers",
		produces : ["application/json"],
		parameters : [],
		responseMessages : [swe.invalid('users'), swe.notFound('users')]
	},
	'action': function (req,res) {
		User.model.find(function(err, users) {
			if (err) return next(swe.invalid('users'))

			if (users) {
				res.send(users);
			} else {
				res.send(404, swe.notFound('users'));
			};
		});
	}
};

/**
* Get record by ID methods
*/
exports.getUserById = {
	'spec': {
		description : "Operations about users",
		path : "/user/{userId}",
		method: "GET",
		summary : "Find user by ID",
		notes : "Returns a user based on ID",
		type : "User",
		nickname : "getUserById",
		produces : ["application/json"],
		parameters : [param.path("userId", "ID of the user to return", "string")],
		responseMessages : [swe.invalid('id'), swe.notFound('user')]
	},
	'action': function (req,res) {
		User.model.findOne({_id: req.params.userId}, function(err, user) {
			if (err) return res.send(404, { error: 'invalid id' });

			if (user) {
				res.send(user);
			} else {
				res.send(404, new Error('user not found'));
			}
		});
	}
};

/**
* Add/create methods
*/
exports.addUser = {
	'spec': {
		path : "/user",
		notes : "Adds a new user",
		summary : "Add a new user",
		method: "POST",
		parameters : [param.body("User name", "JSON object representing the user to add", "User")],
		responseMessages : [swe.invalid('input')],
		nickname : "addUser"
	},
	'action': function(req, res, next) {
		var body = req.body;
		if(!body || !body.name){
			throw swe.invalid('user name');
		} else {
			// Create the new document (database will be updated automatically)
			User.model.create({ name: body.name }, function (err, name) {
				if (err) return res.send(500, { error: err });

				if (name) {
					res.send(name);
				} else {
					res.send(500, { error: 'user not added' });
				};
			});
		}
	}
};

/**
* Update methods
*/
exports.updateUser = {
	'spec': {
		path : "/user",
		notes : "Update an existing user",
		summary : "Update an existing user",
		method: "PUT",
		//parameters : [param.body("User ID", "User ID to update", "User"), param.body("User name", "New user name", "User")],
		parameters : [
			param.query("id", "User ID to update", "string", true),
			param.query("name", "New user name to use", "string", true)
		],
		responseMessages : [swe.invalid('input')],
		type : "User",
		nickname : "updateUser"
	},
	'action': function(req, res, next) {
		var query = req.query;
		if(!query || !query.id) {
			throw swe.invalid('user id');
		} else if(!query || !query.name) {
			throw swe.invalid('user name');
		} else {
			// Update an existing document (database will be updated automatically)
			User.model.update({ _id : query.id }, { name: query.name }, function (err, numRowsAffected, raw) {
				if (err) return res.send(500, { error: err });

				if (numRowsAffected > 0) {
					res.send(raw);
				} else {
					res.send(500, { error: 'user not updated' });
				};
			});
		}
	}
};

/**
* Delete methods
*/
exports.deleteUser = {
	'spec': {
		path : "/user",
		notes : "Delete an existing user",
		summary : "Delete an existing user",
		method: "DELETE",
		parameters : [
			param.query("id", "User ID to delete", "string", true)
		],
		responseMessages : [swe.invalid('input')],
		type : "User",
		nickname : "updateUser"
	},
	'action': function(req, res, next) {
		var query = req.query;
		if(!query || !query.id) {
			throw swe.invalid('user id');
		} else {
			// Delete an existing document (database will be updated automatically)
			User.model.remove({ _id : query.id }, function (err) {
				if (err) return res.send(500, { error: err });

				res.send(200, { 'msg' : 'ok' });
			});
		}
	}
};

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Q: How to intercept 3xx redirection in Spring WebClient I am working on a Spring boot project that uses Spring Webclient to do a GET request on a URL which has a 3xx redirection. Using webclient to do the GET request to that url gives 200 response. I would like to stop at the redirection and get a header named "location" from there.
I tried the following code and I am getting a null in response.
WebClient webclient =  WebClient.builder()
        .clientConnector(new ReactorClientHttpConnector(
                HttpClient.create().followRedirect(false)
        )).build();

@GetMapping("/")
Mono<Object> webclientTest2() throws URISyntaxException {

    return webclient.get()
            .uri("https://URL_THAT_HAS_REDIRECTION")
            .exchange()
            .flatMap(res -> {

                Headers headers = res.headers();
                System.out.println("Status code: "+res.statusCode());
                headers.asHttpHeaders().forEach((k,v) -> {
                    System.out.println(k+" : "+v);
                });
                return Mono.just(headers.asHttpHeaders().get("location"));
            });
}

Webclient isnt stopping at 3xx redirection. The System.out.println statement shows only Status code: 200 and some headers from the next System.out.println statement. How can I get that location header from that 3xx redirection?
Note: One interesting observation I made is using the httpclient instead of webclient is able to retrieve the location header.
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClient.create().followRedirect(false);

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Chung Sye-kyun (ur. 5 listopada 1950) – południowokoreański polityk, w latach 2020–2021 premier Korei Południowej.

Życiorys
W latach 1966–1969 studiował w Jeonju, gdzie pełnił funkcję dziennikarza oraz przewodniczył radzie studenckiej. Ukończył prawo w Seulu w 1974. W 2006 wybrany do parlamentu i powołany na ministra handlu, przemysłu i energii. 6 lipca 2008 wybrany przewodniczącym Partii Demokratycznej. Funkcję tę pełnił do 2010. W latach 2016-2018 przewodniczący Zgromadzenia Narodowego. Od 14 stycznia 2020 do 16 kwietnia 2021 premier Korei Południowej.

Przypisy

Premierzy Korei Południowej
Ludzie związani z Jeonju
Urodzeni w 1950

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OHCA - OHCA Board To Meet In Enid This Month The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board will hold their monthly meeting at the Autry Technology Center, 1201 W. Willow, Enid, Okla., on Thursday, June 14, at 1 p.m.
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board will hold their monthly meeting at the Autry Technology Center, 1201 W. Willow, Enid, Okla., on Thursday, June 14, at 1 p.m.
Anyone who is interested in the state's SoonerCare (Medicaid) and Insure Oklahoma programs is welcome to attend and meet members of the board and OHCA staff.
The complete agenda, as well as additional information about the agency and its programs, is available at www.okhca.org.


Former Hillsboro resident Brian Partridge has experienced the worst that life has to offer.
Partridge's mother, 16 and a single mother, could not take care of Partridge and he grew up in foster care in Tacoma, Wash.
He was in many homes; one foster father and brother molested Partridge when he was young.
Partridge's outlet for his psychological problems was to join a gang and sell and use drugs on the streets of Seattle.
By the time he was 18 years old, Partridge had spent two and half years in prison on a charge of attempted murder.
He later tried to commit suicide.
When he was released from jail, Partridge received a letter from his mother who was living in Hillsboro. She asked Partridge to move to Hillsboro and be with her.
Partridge's foster family encouraged him to move, fearing he would die if he stayed in Washington.
"My way was going downhill," he said.
Partridge said he is a radio for God's word — when he is tuned into the right frequency, he makes sure to follow the subsequent directions.
However, the first time Partridge received a sign from God he was like a wary traveler, spinning the dial aimlessly.
Partridge was playing basketball behind Hillsboro Ministries apartment complex when a family offered him a glass of water, food, and a temporary place to stay.
The family told Partridge about a Christian retreat for young men. Partridge attended the event and the gathering of people caught Partridge's attention.
"I saw guys who were not from around Kansas — ex-drug dealers, ex gang members," Partridge said.
Partridge saw two things in that meeting: one, he was not alone in his struggle and, two, he saw that these men had gained peace and happiness despite their violent pasts.
"I wanted what they had because I could see it was good," Partridge said.
The retreat was organized by Morning Star Ranch counselor Val Newton.
Newton and Tim Suderman recently became co-directors of the Ranch, located four miles east of Florence, this past December.
The division of their duties is bridged with a common goal to bring the love of God to the people in American society who could use the voice of a heavenly power in their lives.
Newton is in charge of the Christian leadership program for young male adults.
Partridge graduated from the two-year Christian leadership program in 2005.
Newton provided discipline for men who have only lived for themselves throughout their adult lives — survival and independence were their priorities.
Trust is an important part of the program; Newton tries to earn trust from men who have been previously betrayed in their lives. The pushback Newton receives from his students he returns with love.
Because the students who stay at Morning Star enrolled in the leadership program longing to change their lives, Newton said the program has an 80 percent success rate. However, the program is anything but easy.
"In terms of putting off the old man and putting on the new, change presents a challenge in anyone's life," Newton said.
The young men in the program study Christianity and receive vocational training, such as construction or auto mechanics. However, the most exhausting part of their learning is the emotional and psychological work to become a new person.
What helps men like Partridge are counselors like Newton who can relate to the struggles of their students. Newton grew up on the streets of Miami and said that he struggled with addiction. He can empathize with the pain of the transformation because he went through the same experience when he gave himself to God, he said.
Partridge said that while he was in the program Newton was a father figure — a relationship that Partridge had never experienced.
Partridge is one of the successes that has fueled Newton to continue mentoring young men for the past 13 years at Morning Star Ranch. Partridge has become a Christian leader despite his hellacious upbringing.
Currently, Partridge lives in Newton where he is working as a youth minister at Riverpoint Church.
He first found the calling of working with children at Morning Star Ranch during its summer camps.
Suderman operates the summer camp program, which runs from the first week of June through the first week of August.
The camp is for inner city youth, age 8 through 15, from Wichita, Dallas, and St. Louis.
While Christianity is a theme in the camp, more importantly the program allows children without the means to have a normal camp experience — canoeing, fishing, and archery are more important than scripture reading because the goal of the camp is to provide fun activities.
With a week of camp, children often develop lifelong friendships that persist despite geographic distance because of Facebook and the Internet.
Suderman said the program does not ask for much money from campers and covers the remaining costs of the camp with the generosity of sponsorships, including funds from local companies such as Flaming's Heating and Air Conditioning and Hillsboro Electric Company.
Partridge has continued his Christian journey since leaving Morning Star.
He went back home to Tacoma where he helped feed the homeless and counsel addicts.
He also started a Christian rap career, recording in Seattle. Music was a hobby Morning Star promoted; he performed in front of groups often at the ranch.
Partridge later went to Reno, Nev., a town he had never visited. Prayers and signs from God led him to the Nevada town — it was where God wanted him to be.
Partridge continued the ministries he started in Washington in Nevada, and joined the Teen Challenge program where he helped counsel California teenagers.
Partridge was later called back to Kansas but says he has received signs that Chicago may be his next destination.
"Wherever the Lord will have me go, I go," Partridge said.
Partridge said he tries to lead the Christian life he learned at Morning Star, although some days are harder than others.
Recently Partridge has committed himself to forgiveness.
He has never resented his mother for leaving him in foster care. He said, if anything, he can put himself in her situation.
Partridge also found a phone number for the foster father who sexually abused him. He called the man and told him he forgave him.
The man hung up the phone without a hint of regret or sorrow at his actions.
Suderman and Newton agreed that their jobs at Morning Star require a huge amount of grace and patience.
However, Suderman, Newton, and Partridge's drive is to transfer that grace to others, especially if it seems undeserved.


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Radiation Program Bunker Expansion Opens
On Wednesday, October 20th, 2004, at 10:00 a.m., the London Regional Cancer Program (LRCP), London Health Sciences Centre will officially open a $3.9 million expansion of its radiation treatment program.
The expansion includes 2 new state-of-the-art linear accelerators and related control areas. Patient treatments have started on one of the new machines and the second machine is expected to begin clinical treatments by the end of October.
"We are delighted with the rapid completion of this project," said Michael Sherar, Vice President, LRCP, LHSC. "LRCP can now begin the process of upgrading existing radiation treatment machines without losing valuable treatment capacity during the upgrades."
Waiting times for access to radiation treatment have continued to improve over the past 12 months and, after the equipment upgrades are complete, LRCP will, in fact, increase treatment capability.
Glenn Bauman, Medical Director of the Radiation Treatment Program at LRCP says, "The availability of up to date radiation equipment is very important in enabling us to meet the increasing demand for timely care for cancer patients in our region."
Her Worship Mayor Anne Marie DiCicco, who officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for this project on June 10, 2003, will be in attendance and will cut the ribbon with patient Mr. Harvey Free, officially opening this new treatment area.
The LRCP is a program of London Health Sciences Centre, and serves a population base of 1.2 million people in 9 counties across Southwestern Ontario. LRCP provides radiation therapy and complex chemotherapy, as well as a complete range of support services for cancer patients and their families.
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The hanging knee raise strengthens the abs, core and hip flexors.
The hanging knee raise also generates a high muscle activity in the obliques because constant abdominal stabilization is required.
Through various progressions the intensity and difficulty of the exercise can be increased.


Almost a decade ago, three young Muslim girls were denied entry into secondary schools, and in what appears to be a similar situation, another young girl, 12-year-old Kalifa Logan, is being denied entry to St Charles High School in Tunapuna, because of her "dreadlocks." Speaking to Newsday yesterday, the girl�s distressed mother Lynette Marshall said that one week before her daughter was due to start school, she called the school to get information on the school uniform. She said it was then that school principal, Sister Adrianna Noel, requested a meeting with her. Marshall said she was told that her daughter would be unable to attend the school because her dread locks were not in keeping with the school�s dress code, or its policy. When Newsday contacted the school yesterday, principal Sister Noel said she was aware of the situation and admitted that the teen was denied entry to the school because of her hair.
Alluding to the dreadlocks hairstyle, the principal said that in the past this has been a trend among students at the school, and as a result the school has been forced to clamp down on such behaviour as the "child should show a type of moral behaviour." The principal said she had no problem with the child being a "member of a certain cult," but also said that as a private institution, the school reserved the right to determine who should be allowed in. She said that nowadays, "every little fly is doing what they want," and that was not in keeping with the strict discipline and conduct codes at the school. To reinforce her stance, the principal even cited a Newsday article from September 10, where schools and workplaces were enforcing stricter dress codes. She then blasted Newsday for entertaining the story of the young girl, after running a story on dress codes only a few days before. Although the principal says the school is a private one, Government pays for some places in the school. Despite this, she was adamant that the locks were a "disciplinary problem."
When questioned about how a 12-year-old child, who has not even started attending the school, could pose a disciplinary problem, the principal maintained that the school operated according to certain guidelines. This is not the only incident in which young girls were being denied entry into schools according to mode of dress, however. Similar incidents occurred in 1994, when Sarah Ali and Summaya Mohammed, of St Joseph�s Convent St Joseph, and Holy Name Convent, respectively, were told they were breaching the school�s dress code because they wore a hijab. During the time of those cases, then chairman of the Hijab Schools Committee, Faiz Amin, said, "If a rasta wants to wear his hair like that, then it is his right if he can prove it is part of his religious practice." However, Logan is not being allowed this privilege despite the fact that the constitution outlines the rights of individuals, clearly stating that there should be "freedom of conscience and religious belief and observance."
Section 15 (2) of the Equal Opportunities Act also states that no educational institution should discriminate against a student by denying or limiting that student�s access to any benefits, facilities or services provided by that establishment. Sister Noel did say, however, that she was working with the child�s mother, in an effort to place the child in another school. As Logan�s mother revealed, however, the transfer process was a "runaround," as she is being told that all schools are filled, and the only school that is available is Five Rivers Junior Secondary. Marshall is refusing to send her daughter to a three-year school as she says that St Charles� is a five-year school and if her daughter is to be transferred, then it she should be to another five-year school.
When the Office of Education Minister Hazel Manning was contacted, no such reports had been received. Efforts to reach communications officer at the Education Ministry, Mervyn Crichlow, were greeted with a full message box. The girl�s mother, Lynette Marshall, said that since her daughter was denied entry to the school, she has not been reimbursed her $400 that was paid for registration. She also said that the school still has her daughter�s personal records. Marshall said that she is pursuing legal action, as both she and her daughter are frustrated that Logan has to stay at home while other students are at school.


e) Proposed 'Names' of the Company & a brief significance of the said Names.
f) Main Objects of the Proposed Company (in brief).
Date of Birth Voter's I.D. No. / Passport No. / Driving License No.
Present Residential Address (With Name of State, Country & PIN Code) Corporate Identity Number (CIN) of any Indian Company wherein he is a director or promoter.
b) Copy of Address Proof (Passport, Driving License, Electricity Bill, Ration Card, Telephone Bill, bank Statement etc.
In case of foreign nationals / NRI's, the said documents shall have to be notarized /apostilled by the Notary of the Home Country of the proposed director.
The attesting authority must indicate the following while attesting the documents – Name in full, Signatures, Seal/Stamp & Registration No.
Submit a Translated Copy (duly attested) in case the original document is in a language other than English or Hindi.
In case Identity Proof does not have date of birth and/or Father's name, or in case the same does not tally with the DIN Application Form, additional proof (duly attested) shall have to be submitted.
a) A brief details of the main objects of the proposed Company.
c) To get the Memorandum and Articles signed by all the subscribers in their own hands, wherein they write their name, father's name, occupation, address and the number of shares subscribed for. The same is to be witnessed by at least one person.
d) In case of foreign nationals / NRI's, the same shall be notarized /apostilled by the Consulate General of the Indian Embassy situated in that Country.
a) Details of Directors in respect of the following: - Designation of Director (Director, Managing Director, Whole-time etc.
b) Category of Director (Chairman, Executive Director or Non-Executive Director).
c) Complete address of the registered office of the Company (with Name of District, State, Country, Pin Code), E-Mail I.D. of Company.
e) Name, Father's Name & Present Residential Address of all subscribers.
f) Documents Required: a) Consent Letter(s) signed by each director in the prescribed format.
g) In case the foreign national/NRI is not available in India, then the Special Power of Attorney shall have to executed on a plain paper and notarized /apostilled by the Consulate General of the Indian Embassy situated in that Country. The SPOA holder shall further sign the SPOA and appropriate stamp duty will be paid in India.
Kindly advise on the below query, I shall be thankful.
If the subsidiary of foreign company purchase stake of 51% in India company, can the part of sale consideration be paid in future.
Early reply will be much appreciated.
In case of transfer of shares between a resident buyer and a non-resident seller or vice-versa, not more than twenty five per cent of the total consideration can be paid by the buyer on a deferred basis within a period not exceeding eighteen months from the date of the transfer agreement. For this purpose, if so agreed between the buyer and the seller, an escrow arrangement may be made between the buyer and the seller for an amount not more than twenty five per cent of the total consideration for a period not exceeding eighteen months from the date of the transfer agreement or if the total consideration is paid by the buyer to the seller, the seller may furnish an indemnity for an amount not more than twenty five per cent of the total consideration for a period not exceeding eighteen months from the date of the payment of the full consideration.


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Hi guys, welcome back to Season 8. I m SO excited to bring the podcast back! And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Since it's the new year, on the show today, I have invited Makayla Ervin, a success coach for mompreneurs to talk about mindset and to eliminate self-limiting beliefs.
I also want to take a moment to thank you for your patience and been so supportive of Staged4more. As you may know from previous shows that I moved to Paris for ten months to pursue my master degree last year and it was very intense to try to work and go to school full time all at the same time.
It's great to be back, working on the school, the blog and the podcast as well. I am very grateful for the opportunities that I have and the freedom that I have to pursue my passions. I know to talk about mindset and stuff like self-limiting beliefs sound very woo woo, but from my own experiences, building a business that makes me feel fulfilled, that can serve others while serving me and my lifestyle has really given me the freedom and purpose. It gives me the motivation to do better. That's why I push for it on the podcast, and also in our courses like the 6-Figure Floor Plan course.
Speaking of which, I will be opening up the enrollment for the next round of 8-week, live 6-Figure Floor Plan mastermind course. The class is going to start on Monday, February 11 and the Early Bird Enrollment will start on February 1.
As our podcast listeners, you can use the coupon code mentioned in the show to get an additional $100 off. Just enter that when you check out, it's going to be on the right-hand side of the page.
Also, there are a couple of free goodies for you on our blog. I have a free Goal Setting Planner for 2019 that will help you set your goals for the year. It also has accountability built in, where you will receive a check-in email every 90 days this year. There is also a free Marketing Plan Planner on the blog.
I am super excited to bring back the show today and to kick off our new season today with Makayla Ervin, a success coach who specializes in working with mompreneurs.
For Makayla, becoming a mom and staying home with her children really helped bring that part of herself back to life again. She never planned to be a Stay At Home Mom, she likes working too much; but she couldn't imagine spending her days anywhere else. So, she built a brand and her business to serve her lifestyle.
She dabbled in several creative businesses before she found her true calling. She was so blessed by the freedom and fulfillment she found from channeling her gifts into a means of income for her family. She was determined to use her passion to educate, inspire, and coach other moms to do the same.
Makayla, I am so excited to interview you! It's the New Year, so I always like to do some mindset type of work on the first episode. You do a lot of work with mindset with your clients. Can you tell us a little bit about your business?
Why is mindset so important when it comes to starting or running a business?
What are some of the self-limiting beliefs that hold us down?
What work can we do to expel these self-limited beliefs?
In your experiences, how has having clarity changed your business and your clients' businesses?
Personally, I think clarity is incredibly important. My business completely shifted once I had clarity on what kind of business I want. When your clients struggle with gaining clarity for their goals and their business, how do you help them find that direction and clarity?
I feel that a lot of times as creative women, we put these self-limiting thoughts onto ourselves. I see this a lot where women feel guilty about charging their worth. I certainly had done this when I started in my career. How can someone harness their purpose and empower themselves to monetize their talents?
I love that in your course for mompreneurs, you push your students to create a business plan. When I updated our course Launcher last month, I added that as well, because I recently had to write one for my master program last year. And it helped me to iron out my business model. In your experiences, why is writing a business plan so effective?
How does someone take a side hustle and turn that into a full-time business?
When the business is new, how can we build an authentic brand that grows organically?
What is the one top tip you will give to gain clarity in your life?
I have always had an entrepreneurial brain, even as a young kid.
Becoming a mom and staying home with my babies really helped bring that part of myself back to life again. I never planned to be a Stay At Home Mom, I like working too much; but I couldn't imagine spending my days anywhere else. Thus, our brand began.
I dabbled in several creative businesses before I found my true calling. I was so blessed by the freedom and fulfillment I found from channeling my gifts into a means of income for my family. I was determined to use my passion to educate, inspire, and coach other moms to do the same.


Day 38 – Think Abundantly Today - More Prosperity For You!
With this in mind, it should be clear: in order for you to live abundantly, it is imperative that you think abundantly. If you are not enjoying as much real prosperity as you would like, then upgrade your thinking. Make sure your mind is filled with rich thoughts and thinks on rich ideas. Refuse to allow lack or limitation thoughts dwell in that powerfully creative mental engine called Mind.
As stated before, God is your source and your consciousness of God is your supply. When you desire to live abundantly, it is essential to fill your mind with God. As you continue doing this, living abundantly becomes automatic. The Law of Manifestation which is also called the Law of Attraction, is: First in Mind the Idea and then the manifestation of the idea. It is really very simple: Think Abundantly Today and you live Abundantly Today!


Visiting ABC Carpet and Home in NY is like taking a trip to a place where dreams materialize. Amongst the many things I found (I'll show you as days go by) was a great collection of furniture by Italian furniture manufacturer Moroso.
The collection is made with a hand-weaving technique that uses as primary material the plastic fibers used for making fishing nets in Senegal. The idea came from a visit made by Moroso who saw that once they used the nets the local artisans would recycle the material into arts and crafts including furniture.
Look at the incredible designs both in the fabrics and furniture that coordinate perfectly!
All over the place you can see over sized images of the designers working together with the weavers and artisans. It a great thing to see the creative process of how it all came together along with the great thing it is for African countries to bring their work to other countries.
For more info on the collection email Christi Love from Moroso and she'll be more than happy to help you.
Hope you're enjoying your Wednesday and see you tomorrow!
Isn't it great there? Something interesting everywhere you turn.
The Moroso furniture is gorgeous. Love the bright colors!
Those are super cool, chic, and styling. Bravo!
Never heard of them but looks superb... now i just need a balcony!!!
The inside of a chair? AMAZING!!!
Love these shots! And I love that this exists to benefit others. What a great mission.
It looks kinda like a museum exhibit!!
These pieces are stunning, and the colors are outrageous! What terrific finds!
Those chairs are so cool! Now I want one!
so cool...I want one too!!!
great photos-I'll have to go take a peek when I'm back in the city!
wow! what an innovative way to use recycled materials to make furniture. would love to have one of the chairs...perfect for lounging with a good book!
One of my absolute favorite places to shop in NYC. These photos are amazing!
oh wow those chairs are so cool!!
Oh I adore that store. Especially the rugs. Did you eat lunch at the cafe inside?


Living a passionate life… Living Your passionate life… This sounds exotic, powerful and even mysterious but what does it actually mean? I know it exists and I've witnessed people who are living in this rare way but how do you live a passionate life?
You just know when people are living in line with their true passion. They are the people who have an inner glow and who radiate vitality. Joy shines from them and they move with a sense of purpose.
Your passions are the essence of who you are and what make your life worth living.
The common belief is that to live a life of passion is out of reach. It's a fantasy that only a few lucky people have obtained by some weird stroke of luck. We know there is more to life than the endless loop of work and home. We know there is more out there that we can achieve and enjoy but how do we reach it?
The Army taught me a lot of things, but perhaps the most empowering lesson was that our limitations are only perceived. I was shown (often not by choice) that what I thought were my limits were only in my mind. Limits were just imaginary barriers that I could bust through any time I chose to (or when a very loud, intimidating Sergeant told me that I was about to bust through). With planning, perseverance, faith in ourselves and by facing our fears we can all achieve our goals and dreams. There is always a way around a hurdle or obstacle. Step back, ask for help, move around it, view the problem from a new perspective and open your mind to think in a new and refreshing way.
Are your passions worth your time? Do you remember the time when you were connected to what you loved to do? Are you nurturing these? Without that connection to your passions, your joy of life will ebb away a little every day until one day you'll stop and think 'what has happened?' Like a boat in the sunset disappearing over the distant horizon.
The key to living a passion-driven life is to identify where your passions are and then live them more and more each day. As you live for your passions you will find ways to create the income you need around what you love doing. It may start with reconnecting to a hobby you once had for just an hour each week or doing more of that thing that gives you that deep sense of fulfilment and then expanding that as it feels right. Yes there may be sacrifices, yes there may be things that change but is it worth it to live a life that you fully enjoy?
Find the difference between merely being alive and truly living!
What ignites you to make you feel alive?
What used to excite you before you forgot it?
What are you afraid to try because you might fail or it takes you out of your comfort zone?
What gives you that wonderful inner feeling of fulfilment and joy?
What can you re-prioritise so that you begin living your life, your way?
Your passions are the things that fill you with life, joy and vitality. Decide what one thing you are going to DO this week to move yourself one step closer to living your passion driven life. With continued small steps, great things are achieved.


Bamboo and caramel bamboo are not only the two most environmentally sustainable worktops we sell, but also looks completely unique alongside the timbers that make up our range of other wooden worktops. In this information guide you'll find out everything there is to know about the material, including its history, the manufacturing process and much more.
None of our other worktops look quite the same as our bamboo and caramel bamboo worktops. Whilst a bamboo work surface has a light, golden colour, the caramelised bamboo possesses a deeper hue that is produced through the caramelisation process (more on this in the 'Source and Manufacture' segment).
A bamboo wood kitchen worktop has a wonderfully unique look, brought about by the straight grain pattern and nodes that appear in the timber at random intervals. Generally the look of these timbers is much more consistent than the other worktops we sell, largely due to the rapid growth and more symmetrical growth of the bamboo.
If you want to see some more examples of bamboo and caramel bamboo tops, then have a look at our Worktop Image Gallery.
Let's get this out of the way nice and early for all you purists out there: bamboo isn't technically a wood – it's a monocot grass that's very easy to cultivate in the right climate. The upside of this is that the material regrows incredibly quickly; some bamboos can grow centimetres in an hour! Indeed, the type of giant bamboo used for our worktops takes only 5 or 6 years to fully grow. Compare this to decades for the hardwoods used in our solid wood worktops and you'll realise just how quickly bamboo is replenished.
Because of its grassy roots, bamboo doesn't have the same growth rings or variation in 'wood' type. Its texture is very uniform, and is usually very fine. The timber is characterised by the nodes that occur periodically up the stem, and create darker bands that give bamboo worktops a distinctive look.
Bamboo has very large pores compared to most wooden timbers, which is key in creating caramel bamboo, but also means that bamboo tends to have a very distinctive endgrain pattern.
It also has a very high silica content, which means that it is naturally very water resistant, and despite the larger pores, tends to be quite resilient to rotting. The higher concentrations of silica in the outer layers of the bamboo means that when the bamboo block is cut, the dust created can be dangerous when inhaled, so appropriate protection should be worn.
There are over 1,500 species of bamboo worldwide, but the larger species in the genus 'Phyllostachys' that are used for our worktops come from bamboo's traditional home: Eastern China. It's the exposure to a wide range of temperature, weather cycles and perfect soil chemistry that give bamboo its durable qualities.
Though bamboo is often harvested approximately every 5 years (depending on historical weather patterns), it can be harvested much sooner than this, and regular pruning actually encourages faster growth. Some types of bamboo are the fastest growing in the world, growing as much as a metre every day in tropical regions.
Bamboo's uses are wide and varied – it's not just a great timber. Some of its uses include: a natural scaffolding; an alternative to wooden flooring; home decorations, paper and textiles; traditional musical instruments; eating utensils and many, many more things besides. But it's our belief that bamboo block surfaces are the most impressive creation of all!
Caramel bamboo differs from our normal bamboo purely in the processes which follows its harvest. Most bamboo is left to dry out and straighten naturally, whilst caramel bamboo is subjected to a carbonisation process not unlike the process of caramelising sugar. First, heat is applied to the bamboo either with steam or by boiling. This allows natural sugars in the timber to caramelise and alter the bamboo's colour. In contrast to staining – which is applied to the surface of a timber and does not penetrate deeply – carbonising completely alters the colour of bamboo to make it a darker golden brown. The carbonisation process does make the bamboo slightly softer, but doesn't negatively affect its strength or resilience – it's still a great worktop material.
Since inception, Worktop Express® have delivered well over 150,000 worktops. With the vast quantity of quality products we've delivered, we've become experts in the timber industry, and have plenty of in-house experience covering the sourcing, manufacture and fabrication of top-quality wooden worktops.
We'll only ever deal directly with manufacturers of the worktops and suppliers of timber directly, which cuts out the need for any middlemen – thus reducing the cost of our worktops, whilst allowing our process to be much more transparent. We make regular visits to our manufacturing facilities, which allows us to ensure that our environmental standards are followed, and that we are able identify exactly where our timber has come from.
For more information, head over to our Sourcing and Manufacture guide.
As with all of our other wooden worktops, our bamboo worktops are manufactured from individual staves; though due to the smaller diameter of bamboo trunks, the staves are only 20mm wide rather than 40mm (or even 90mm in Deluxe and full stave worktops), and between 3 and 8mm deep.
Many of these thinner staves are sandwiched together with a resin into larger horizontal timber pieces to make up the bulk of the worktop. A fascia of only the best pieces of bamboo is then applied to the top of these larger sections, to give the bamboo worktop an attractive and even finish.
To find out more about the construction of our wooden worktops, have a read of our Construction Types Explained information guide.
Bamboo has long been an icon in Chinese culture. They see it as a symbol of uprightness, tenacity and integrity – all traits highly sought by noble Chinese men. It's also very important in the religion of Buddhism, as it plays a strong part in the beliefs of strict Buddhists, who are against any form of cruelty to animals. The tender bamboo shoot is nutritious and so became a choice alternative to live on. And it's not just China that prizes bamboo: you'll find bamboo forests in Japan that surround sacred Shinto shrines and protect them from evil.
Bamboo plays a part in many other Asian cultures, including martial arts and weaponry in Vietnam, and mythology in the Philippines and Malaysia: one popular myth tells that man first emerged from a split bamboo stem.
In ancient China, bamboo parchments were amongst the first mediums for writing upon. The earliest examples of these bamboo strips (or 'slips), date back to the fifth century BC, although there are references in Chinese texts that suggest it has been used as a form of paper at least as early as 1250BC.
As a construction material, bamboo is thought to have been used for thousands of years. It's incredibly strong and versatile as the frame of a building, but can also be manufactured in to roof tiles, water ducts and a host of other architectural uses. Bamboo has also been used to construct rafts and floating houses, fishing rods, furniture, as a water filter and – perhaps most symbolically – chopsticks.
Cementing its place as a globally appreciated plant, bamboo is also the national plant of St. Lucia; is firmly rooted in the culture of the 'Bozo' ethnic groups from western Africa; and is used as a traditional medicine in northern India to treat infertility, impotence and menstrual pains.
With over 5,000 worktops in stock at any one time throughout our UK warehouses, we've been able to make great progress in reducing the price of oak and other hardwood worktops.
We continue to strive to progress this through high-volume purchasing and continually improved efficiency. We also use an advanced online stock ordering system which helps us to minimise wasted stock and reduce costs further.
With our 'direct-to-the-public' e-retail business model, we've been able to become more efficient than many other high-street retailers, as well as reducing overheads, culminating in us being able to offer our up-to-date products at lower prices than any other solid wood worktop retailer.
By cutting out the middlemen in our sourcing and manufacturing stages, we're able to not only ensure that our timber is up to the highest quality, but also save further costs through the development of our own internal support network. This expertise has led us to become the largest importers of solid wood worktops in to the UK, and having just expanded in to Germany, we plan to continue our growth into Europe throughout 2014.
If you'd like to see just how good our bamboo worktops are up-close, then why not order a bamboo kitchen worktop sample. They're only £5 including delivery, and are cut from existing worktop stock that is oiled on one side to provide an accurate representation of the finished product. If – after receiving your sample – you decide to place an order with us, we'll deduct the cost from your first order.
Bamboo and caramel bamboo worktops are available for only £140 for a 2m worktop. Matching upstands are available for both variations of the timber from just £25.
Bamboo and caramel bamboo worktops are ideal for modern kitchens, or for anyone who'd like an extremely eco-friendly counter solution. The light colour of our standard bamboo worktops pairs well with high-contrast colours, whilst the deeper golden tones of caramel bamboo are accentuated beautifully by solid oak cabinetry and more traditional features.
Whether it's simply bamboo that you require, or something a little different, Worktop Express have a variety of options for you to choose from.
is it possible to woodstain the bamboo black prior to oil finishing to seal.
This is not something we have experience of so I would not like to advise on the finish this would achieve. Bamboo has a naturally high oil content which does make it harder to stain than hardwoods such as Oak. Possibly try either an oil-based or polyurethane stain and avoid using highly pigmented product as this may result in a blotchy finish. Unfortunately, as we do not supply stains we have not tried and tested products for this purpose and there is not a particular stain we can recommend.
I would advise ordering a sample to perform some tests on prior to applying a stain to the worktop.
How easy is it to cut, shape and finish bamboo compared to wood?
When cutting your Bamboo kitchen worktop to size, you may notice the occasional appearance of small gaps within the exposed cross-section of the cut edge. This is not a manufacturing fault but a natural occurrence due to the bamboo's layered construction. You will find this is easily remedied with a small application of an appropriate filler. After cutting, you may need to lightly sand the edges as Bamboo can fray slightly.
I was looking to have a bamboo worktop in the kitchen and before it was installed I was going to apply a 2 part polyurethane clear coat to the surface in order to give it protection against water and heat. I wonder if you would recommend this course of action?
Although we have been told of other customers doing this in the past, it is not something we offer ourselves, nor have we experimented with it.
Our recommended treatment is Rustins Danish Oil, which is a food-safe oil that accentuates the colour and grain whilst giving the surface a low-lustre finish.
As long as the treatment you have chosen is marked as food-safe and suitable for hardwood timbers, it should be fine to coat the worktops in, but will likely result in a much shinier finish, which may look somewhat artificial.
Can you make bespoke caramel bamboo worktops? I need a piece 1990 x 1000. If it is possible can I have a price and lead time. Thanks.
Thank you for sending in your query about bespoke caramel bamboo worktops.
We can fabricate worktops up to 1500mm wide and 4M long for most timber types – including caramel bamboo worktops – via our Bespoke Worktops service.
If you are looking for a worktop measuring 1990mm x 1000mm, you will need to speak to our fabrication team via telephone or email to get an idea of the price and an exact lead time to create this worktop. Currently lead times are between 3-8 working days once a fabrication diagram has been confirmed.
If you would like us to go ahead with this quote, please get in touch and we will pass the query onto our fabrication team.
Caramel bamboo worktops are hard-wearing and naturally resistant to water and bacterial ingress. Like any of the other worktops in our collection, however, we would take care when using hot pots and pans around the surface.
We suggest using stainless steel hotrods to provide an area where you can safely stand any hot items. They sit in grooves that are routed into the surface, and are removable for cleaning.
If having bamboo worktops adjacent to an oven, we suggest the addition of endcaps to help protect the end grain of the timber, and stop the worktop from warping as the environment changes in temperature.
we have purchased several bamboo worktops from you and been using them as table top for a sushi bar. However we are experiencing the problem of table tops becoming sticky in every few weeks. Is there any good finish you recommend? according my research Tung oil is durable but it seems take a long time for it to dry. Please let me now if you have helpful information on this.
We recommend using Rustins Danish Oil to finish any of our wooden worktops including bamboo. Rustins is a special mixture of Tung oil and other mineral oils that is intended to dry quicker than regular Tung oil, however – like any finish – it will need time to fully settle, ideally overnight.
Alternatively you could consider a treatment such as lacquer for your bamboo worktops, but this will leave a shiny finish that does not look as natural as the low-lustre finish of a Danish oil.
Please note that if the worktops have already been treated, you may need to sand them down before applying an alternative finish.
I want to buy some caramelised bamboo kitchen worktops, as they are naturally sealed do I still need to put some sort oil on them?
Thanks for getting in touch regarding our caramel bamboo worktops. Though these surfaces are made from a timber that is naturally resistant to water, we still recommend oiling the surface to give it a protective layer. This helps to repel any standing water and stains, though will still need to be regularly wiped down and occasionally re-oiled to maintain the surface.
I was just wondering how durable bamboo is? How does it hold up to knocks and dents when compared to hardwoods like Maple and Beech?
Bamboo is exceptionally durable as it is naturally water-repellent, which makes it perfect for use in kitchens. It is higher density and reaches higher on the Janka hardness scale (which is used to test resistance to denting and wear for flooring) than maple, and it scores similarly to beech for both of these so bamboo worktops will be just as resilient to daily wear and tear as these timbers.
One of the benefits of any timber worktop is that often any light damage sustained can be worked out of the surface fairly easily, and we have a number of guides with step-by-step instructions on doing this if necessary.
Can you use bamboo worktops in the bathroom?
Both our bamboo and caramel bamboo worktops are suitable for installing in bathrooms. As bathrooms generally have high humidity levels, we recommend that you apply lacquer or varnish to ensure they are sufficiently protected from excess moisture.


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Bigfoot: Australia's Yowies Ignored By Science!
A surprising reappraisal has been taking place in human biology during the past few years. The border between what is "human" and what is "animal" is being subtly shifted to include in the human category the Great Apes (gorilla, chimpanzee and orangutan, with all the moral and ethical implications inherent in such a shift. More modestly, we may see ourselves as being part of the Great Apes (see Colin Groves' talk on Occam's Razor on 28 April) and perceive the Great Divide as being between us and the monkeys. There is also talk about the possibility of a new species of humans walking the land; their DNA artificially altered, straight into the rosy-fingered dawn of yet another Brave New World.
And yet, while all this dramatic rethinking is going on, we do not even know the exact situation within our own genus Homo. We blindly persist in believing that we, Homo sapiens, are the only extant species within this genus. We are convinced, in spite of steadily growing evidence to the contrary, that we hold the monopoly of human-ness proper (never mind our closeness to the great apes), not unlike the conviction some centuries ago that the earth was the center of the universe. And like Galileo, those who dare question this dogma find themselves in the impossible position of having to prove something that cannot be proved to those who do not want to know. In those times, such heretics were in danger of being burnt at the stake; at present the establishment, as being "unscientific", brands them. It is idle to speculate what hurts more: at the stake it was over in an hour or so, but the "unscientific" label may stick to you for many years if not for life.
The question thus is whether the search for still unknown non-sapiens hominids, usually called "Wildmen", has anything to do with science. There are by now thousands of reports of such Wildmen throughout the world: Abominable Snowmen or Yetis in the Himalayas, Yeren in China, Sasquatch or Bigfoot in North America, "Forestmen" in Indochina, and Yahoos, Yowies or Hairy men in Australia. There are also reports of such beings, under different names, from Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Pakistan, Mongolia, the Caucasus, various parts of Africa and even South America.
To dismiss all this as collective hallucination, the primitive need for the mythological or simply as archetypal legends common to all humankind will not do any more. Even though some of these explanations are the results of recent profound thinking, they now appear like rear-guard attempts by some medieval Church authorities to explain away an irritating (because it does not fit into the orthodox world-view) natural phenomenon. That is precisely what the continuing existence of "Wildmen" is: there is no room for them.
The best way to solve the parking problem is to erect "no parking" signs everywhere, is it not? Same here: affirm that the Wildmen problem does not exist and it is ipso facto solved. To ridicule those who believe in their existence by saying that therefore they must also believe in UFOs does not help either, because these are two totally unrelated issues, separated by a huge gap on the probability scale and lumped together in the minds of some naive "skeptics" only because both are outside the rigid boundaries of conventional knowledge. No, we as academics owe it to our contemporaries to come to grips with this problem and solve it on a scientific basis. But how do we go about doing this? Having recently returned from "Wildman" research in Laos with what I thought were very good results, I was accused of not being scientific enough by some of my colleagues, and even by a journalist. I therefore wish to justify myself; but this is done more in sorrow than in anger.
There seems to be a general agreement that the essence of the scientific method is the "validation of hypotheses by observation or experiments" (The Heritage Dictionary), to which should be added that this must be verifiable by others. The formulation of a hypothesis is thus to be seen as the first and foremost criterion for something to be "scientific".
My own hypothesis, based on many years of research, is that there still exist higher primate forms distinct from both the Pongidae and Homo sapiens, ie. Either still unknown bipedal pongids or non-sapiens hominids, in certain inaccessible parts of the Indochinese Peninsula and in particular in a well-defined spot in Central Laos near the border with Vietnam, from which I had reports of the existence of "gorillas" in the late 1960s. These reports came from Vietnamese, Laotian, American and Australian sources, checked and double-checked with regard to their authenticity and trustworthiness.
My "experiment" consisted in going there (which is far from easy), interviewing old people in remote villages and eventually recording first-hand information about powerfully built hairy manlike creatures which/who used to live in precisely the area I expected them to have been until it was bombed, defoliated and napalmed (because the Ho Chi Minh Trail was going through it) which resulted in the destruction of the primary forest, their habitat. In order to pinpoint more closely their physical appearance, I had prepared a set of pictures to choose from: photographs and drawings of the Great Apes, reconstitution drawings or paintings of some prehistoric hominids such as "Java Man" and the reconstitution drawing, after the original photographs, of the famous "Minnesota Iceman", identified by one of the foremost zoologists of our time, Dr Bernard Heuvelmans of Paris, as being a relic Neanderthal originating very probably from Vietnam. It was to this latter picture (which is reproduced on this page), drawn by Heuvelmans' ex-wife Alika Lindbergh that everybody pointed without the slightest hesitation as being the best representation of the creatures they had seen.
My original hypothesis has been validated inasmuch as there are irrefutable indications for the existence at least into the recent past, if not into the present, of obviously non-sapiens hominids, almost certainly of the relic Neanderthal type, in the area I hypothesized them to be.
This can be verified by whoever is game enough to repeat my experiment! This research has been conducted strictly according to the rules and should therefore qualify for the coveted label "scientific".
Not so, say certain skeptics or "mainstream" anthropologists, paleontologists, human biologists or whatever: where is the proof? We want to be convinced! The counter-argument is "this cannot be: non-sapiens hominids cannot exist any more because they are extinct, as we all know"; end of conversation. There is thus either no initial hypothesis at all (ignore the problem and it ceases to exist), which is certainly not "scientific", or the hypothesis is that such creatures do not and cannot exist, which is impossible to prove by any experiment or observation, the less so if one keeps in mind the dictum that "the absence of evidence is no evidence for absence".
Back to the demand of proof by those who must be convinced. Unfortunately, "proof" and "evidence" are never a matter of simply yes or no; there are grades and shades. There is "no proof", "hardly any proof', "proof", "good proof' and "ironclad proof". As to evidence, it can be "not a skerrick of evidence", "some evidence", "evidence" and, if you are lucky, "hard evidence". But the degree of hardness is always determined by the receiver of the evidence, not the giver of it (perhaps we should call them now the "evidencer" versus the "evidencee"). If the evidencee just does not want to be convinced, there is little the evidencer can do except for breaking some crockery or hitting a punch-bag to relieve his/her frustration. The decision of what is "convincing" and what is not is entirely in the hands — or rather the minds — of the custodians of "science as we know it".
Obviously, these custodians know more of the theoretical framework of evolution and of paleontology than the illiterate peasant in the Lao-Vietnam border region. And yet, when it comes to observing the jungle around them, the latter, free from preconceived ideas, is by far the more reliable provider of evidence than the former. The jungle is the testing ground for theories, not the study of the armchair academic. However, as proof, the testimonial of the Laotian montagnard (or Nepalese sherpa or Chinese peasant), faithfully transmitted by the researcher, is usually considered insufficient, although all workers in the field know of the fundamental honesty of indigenous people towards strangers (Margaret Mead and her informants not withstanding!). I cannot help smelling the nauseating odor of racism here. What, then, would really convince these unscientific skeptics? The first answer to this question, usually accompanied by an arrogant smirk, is: I believe it when I see it! But if ever they were really to see the object of their disbelief, e.g. A Wildman in up-country Laos, they would in turn not be believed upon their return home! They would themselves see the smirk on the faces of their interlocutors and would have enormous and well-deserved trouble in trying to convince them. "Seeing is believing" only works for the individual and cannot be used as proof or evidence for those who do not want to be convinced.
The next step normally is "Wanted: one Wildman, dead or alive". Thus runs the revealing title of the rather negative review of Myra Shackley's book Wildmen by a well-known British human biologist in New Scientist, August 1983. Revealing, because it shows the unyielding attitude of the establishment in the face of over-whelming evidence gathered by an intrepid, although fallible, scholar by simply demanding the impossible. It is physically and materially impossible for any one scholar working in the field to produce a living, fierce, growling and biting six-foot Wildman from Outer Mongolia (or for that matter from Central Laos), or even its/his decomposing body, like a rabbit out of a hat, for the benefit of an incredulous armchair colleague in London. It is also ethically impossible. And here we come to the crux of the matter.
Unlike cryptozoological research for other animals like the Tasmanian Tiger, that for Wildmen is really anthropological research (i.e. the search for unknown human beings) and must therefore be conducted according to the ethical principles and scientific rules of anthropology rather than of zoology or paleontology. If there is now the tendency, among more enlightened primatologists and other scholars, to view the Great Apes as being entitled to the same protection as humans (right to life, protection of individual liberty and prohibition of torture), why should this not be so for still unknown hominoids and especially non-sapiens hominids. The latter are clearly man and should automatically enjoy the rights thereof, regardless of whether these rights will eventually also be accorded to the Great Apes.
In practical terms this means that in no circumstances (except in self-defense) is a researcher allowed to kill the object of his/her research in order to get possession of it as iron-clad proof of its existence. Even the hunting, subduing, stunning or capturing of a Wildman cannot be permissible because it would deprive this creature of its liberty and would probably even involve some form of torture. What if, for argument's sake, a hitherto unknown tribe was discovered tomorrow in a remote valley in Irian Jaya: could any western scholar, sitting in his armchair, say "get me one of those blokes dead or alive or else I am not convinced of their existence"? Certainly not; he would either have to go to the remote valley to see for himself or he would have to be content with the description provided by the anthropologist in the field without this being less scientific. Anthropological research has been done in this way ever since it began and it developed into a fully fledged science without there ever having been this arrogant demand for "proof" by those who stayed at home.
One last-ditch argument by the skeptics often is that even though you are not supposed to kill a Wildman, there must be lots of bodies or skeletons of them around there where you claim they live: why can you not bring home a skull or at least some bones to convince us? So: must there? How many bodies or skeletons of the Great Apes were found before their existence became known through eyewitness accounts?
At the very least, we want something tangible beyond mere hearsay, such as footprints, tufts of hair, faeces, sound recordings or photographs, as if any of these was in itself more trustworthy and unequivocal than the testimonial of honest, observant and unbiased — if uneducated — "natives".
On the contrary: every single such item has again and again been dismissed by those who do not want to be convinced. Footprints must be those of a bear or are dilated by weathering, tufts of hair could be from any odd beast, same for faeces, sound recordings are probably fakes and photographs are vague, not in focus, too dark and probably fakes, too. To which the researcher could add that even the best photograph cannot answer better than a faithful eye-ear- or nose-witness account certain questions regarding the exact taxon of the observed creature, its gait, habits, movements, reactions, smell, etc., thus everything that transforms it from a theoretical into a real human being.
The more one deals with these matters, the more one is struck by the close similarities and yet paradoxical differences between what is going on in a court of justice and in the corridors of what masquerades as science. There are a number of expressions in the legal vocabulary which science, and in particular that dealing with human beings, could do better than ignore, such as "balance of probabilities", "onus of proof" "beyond reasonable doubt", and above all the admirable Anglo-Saxon maxim of "innocent until proven guilty" which is constantly contravened by skeptics for the sake of scientific objectivity. A person "claiming" to have seen a Wildman is automatically presumed to be guilty of lying (because Wildmen cannot exist!) unless he can "prove" the existence of Wildmen by some other means and thus his innocence to the satisfaction of the one whom accuses him of lying! What a charade! This kind of "science" clearly has reached its use-by date and should be taken off the shelves immediately. Time has come in Wildman research to shift the onus of proof squarely on to the skeptics and to realize that beyond a certain point doubt is not only not any more reasonable but also a positive (or should one say negative?) hindrance to the advancement of real science. This is the more urgent as all still insufficiently known relic hominoids are endangered species and they may disappear before they have been officially "discovered".
This would certainly not be to the greater glory of the scientific establishment at the turn of the millennium. At fault is not the scientific method as such, which has been adhered to scrupulously by most researchers in this field, what is at fault is the one-sided and short-sighted interpretation of what is thought by "main-stream" researchers to be the essence of this method: its thrust. The scientific method aims at finding out, not keeping out. Long live the scientific methods!
Dr Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, a trained anthropologist, is retired Reader in Asian History and now a Visiting Fellow at the Southeast Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU. Source ANU Reporter 27(12): 4. Wednesday, 17 July 1996.


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text:
'use strict'
const jwt = require('jwt-simple')
const Diag = require('../Diag')
const path = require('path')
const D = new Diag(path.parse(__filename).name)
const assert = require('assert')

/**
 * Ensures Serverless AWS Lambda handlers are authenticated with a JWT Bearer token.
 */
class LambdaAuthorizer {
  /**
   * @param {*string} jwtCert The contents of the public certificate that is used to validate the JWT signature.
   */
  constructor (jwtCert) {
    assert(jwtCert, 'jwtCert required')
    this.jwtCert = jwtCert
  }

  /**
   * Returns a function that will validate that an AWS Lambda request is authenticated.
   * Expects an `Authorization` request header with a Bearer token that is a JWT.
   * If the request isn't authorized, an HTTP response with failure information will be written.
   * If auth succeeds, it will add a `protected.claims` value to the context.
   * If postAuthorizationHandler returns a Promise, the promise will be resolved and its response be routed to the normal AWS Lambda handler callback.
   * @param {*function} postAuthorizationHandler A AWS Lambda-style handler that will be called if the request contains valid Authorization details.
   * @example
   * const cert = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/data/private/test-key.crt').toString('ascii')
   * const authorizer = new LambdaAuthorizer(cert)
   * module.exports.helloWorld = authorizer.protectHandler( (event, context, cb) => {
   *  const resp = { body: 'You only see this if authorized.' }
   *  return Promise.resolve(resp)
   * })
   */
  protectHandler (postAuthorizationHandler) {
    // return function that accepts event/context/callback, which:
    //   - Validates caller is authenticated
    //   - Then calls the postAuthHandler (user's function after authentication validated)
    return (event, context, callback) => {
      let isAuthenticated
      let authError
      try {
        isAuthenticated = this._ensureAuthentication(event, context, callback)
        authError = null
      } catch (err) {
        authError = err
        isAuthenticated = false
      }

      if (isAuthenticated) {
        return this._invokeHandlerAndMapResponse(postAuthorizationHandler, event, context, callback)
      } else {
        return this._writeError(401, `This resource requires authentication. Additional information: ${authError}`, callback)
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Calls the handler directly without requiring authentication.
   * It does allow the handler to returna promise that will be mapped to the appropriate callback.
   * @param {*function} postAuthorizationHandler A AWS Lambda-style handler that will be called.
   */
  publicHandler (postAuthorizationHandler) {
    return (event, context, callback) => {
      return this._invokeHandlerAndMapResponse(postAuthorizationHandler, event, context, callback)
    }
  }

  _invokeHandlerAndMapResponse (postAuthorizationHandler, event, context, callback) {
    let result = postAuthorizationHandler(event, context, callback)
    // D.log('response from postAuthorizationHandler:', result)
    const isPromise = obj => obj && 'then' in obj // <- https://stackoverflow.com/a/27746324/51061
    if (isPromise(result)) {
      return result
        .then(handlerResponse => callback(null, handlerResponse))
        .catch(handlerError => {
          if (!('httpStatusCode' in handlerError)) {
            // let lambda/APIG decide how to handle:
            callback(handlerError, null)
            return
          }
          let errorMessage = ''
          if ('name' in handlerError && handlerError.name) {
            errorMessage = handlerError.name + ': '
          }
          errorMessage += handlerError.message
          this._writeError(handlerError.httpStatusCode, errorMessage, callback)
        })
    } else {
      // not a promise, so handler expected to invoke callback
      return result
    }
  }

  /**
   * Return true if request is authorized.
   */
  _ensureAuthentication (event, context, callback) {
    const getToken = () => {
      if (!event) throw new AuthenticationRequiredError('request must have an event')
      if (!event.headers) throw new AuthenticationRequiredError('request must have headers')
      if (!('Authorization' in event.headers)) {
        throw new AuthenticationRequiredError('Authorization header required')
      }
      if (!context) throw new AuthenticationRequiredError('request must have a context')
      const authValue = event.headers.Authorization.trim()
      if (!authValue.startsWith('Bearer')) {
        throw new AuthenticationRequiredError('expected Bearer auth')
      }
      return authValue.slice('Bearer'.length).trim()
    }

    const decodePrincipal = (tokenVal) => {
      let decoded
      try {
        decoded = jwt.decode(tokenVal, this.jwtCert)
        context.protected = {
          claims: decoded
        }
        return true
      } catch (err) {
        D.log('decoding failed:', err)
        throw new Error(`Decoding cookie failed with error: ${err}`)
      }
    }

    let token = getToken()
    return decodePrincipal(token)
  }

  _writeError (statusCode, errMsg, callback) {
    // TODO: Could read the accept header here and return HTML response as needed. I'm assuming we really only care about the status code when expecting JSON.
    // TODO: Should optionally allow to use a templated "error" html page for response via staticfilehandler too. See OAuthClientHandler
    const response = {
      statusCode: statusCode,
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'WWW-Authenticate': 'Bearer'
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({ message: errMsg })
    }
    return callback(null, response)
  }
}

class AuthenticationRequiredError extends Error {
  constructor (message) {
    super(message)
    this.message = message
    this.name = 'AuthenticationRequiredError'
  }
}

module.exports = LambdaAuthorizer
module.exports.AuthenticationRequiredError = AuthenticationRequiredError


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Pasig Green City Program: Towards a Healthy Environment and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Rapid economic growth often results in unplanned urbanization with its host of negative consequences, such as the mushrooming of densely packed communities with limited access to water and sanitation. As a result, cities like Pasig are often confronted with problems of solid waste management, flooding, pollution, health problems and environmental degradation. If these problems are not addressed, socio-economic development will not be sustained and the poor will suffer the most.
With this realization, the Pasig City Government crafted the Pasig Green City Program in 2007. The program aims to transform Pasig into a progressive city with clean air, safe water and a healthy environment where there are lush urban forest and green spaces and is populated by people who are ecologically empowered. Under the project, environmental protection is fully integrated with community development.
Among the program's strategies is the enactment of environmental ordinances and strict enforcement of laws requiring all establishments to secure an Environmental Permit to Operate and to install antipollution devices.
The program also trained 500 Green Police Volunteers from the 30 barangays as enforcers and implementers of the Pasig Green City Program. They are authorized to apprehend violators of environmental laws and ordinances. The Pasig Green City Program also employs an integrated, holistic and proactive approach in addressing air, odor, water, land, noise and visual pollution.
Since its implementation, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) has generated an income of between PhP 8 to 16 million from industrial inspection fees, penalties from Anti-Smoke Belching and voluntary emission testing fees. The income will be used to supplement other sources of revenue for the operations and maintenance of the Pasig Green City Program and for the implementation of other environmental projects.
Under the program, the LGU was able to plant 22,000 trees, which absorb carbon dioxide and air pollutants. The tree-planting activities have also heightened\ people's awareness on proper environmental management. And because of vegetable gardening, people now have access to organic vegetables and traditional herbal remedies.
Today, all commercial and business establishments are incorporating environmental policies and green management principles. With the high number of smoke-belching vehicles apprehended by the deputized Green Police, more people are now conscious about conducting preventive maintenance of their vehicles and are adopting cleaner technologies. Pasig City has also been declared as a role model for intensified Smoke Belching monitoring and apprehension in the country. More importantly, the city's air quality has been classified as one of the cleanest in Metro Manila.
The City Government took the lead in adopting cleaner technologies by converting its government-owned gasoline vehicles into LPG-powered vehicles towards cleaner air and sustainable urban transport. About 81 government-owned vehicles were converted to LPG which is more fuel efficient and clean air compliant. In this way, the government served as a good example to its people.
Since 2008, about 15,800 kilograms of recyclable wastes have been recycled and a total of PhP79,000 was raised. This amount was apportioned equally to 10 public schools.
From September 2007, about 10,000 ecobags were distributed to all sectors in Pasig as part of the advocacy to ban the use of plastic bags in the markets. The City Government gave PhP 1 million in subsidies for the production of the ecobags. This enabled the market\ vendors to sell the bags at a lower price and helped them obtain an alternative source of livelihood.
About 800 women have been trained and employed as makers of water lily bags. This alternative livelihood gave women the opportunity to increase their earning and coping capacity. It also helped improve the water quality of the city because water pollution was reduced.
As of 2008, there are 27 solar powered lights that have been installed in the streets of Barangay Kapitolyo and within the Pasig City Hall compound. About 1,140 incandescent bulbs were replaced with Compact Florescent Lamps (CFL) as part of the Palit-Ilaw Project in the Mutya ng Pasig Mega Market.
The success of the Green City program is largely attributed to its promotion of people's participation and empowerment. The LGU ensured that the voice, aspiration and welfare of the people were incorporated in the development and implementation of the program.
Moreover, the LGU implements its environmental projects in cooperation with various stakeholders—the community, NGO/POs, the academe, the churches, the barangays, the business establishments, the transport and other sectors. For instance, the Carbon Sink Campaign: Tree Growing activity is undertaken by the LGU in partnership with the schools, business establishments, barangays, homeowners, and civic organizations. Meanwhile, in the Industrial Pollution Control project, the Multipartite Monitoring Teams are composed of affected stakeholders such as the homeowners, NGO/POs and barangay officials. Under the GreenHeart Savers project, the school children, teachers and parents are encouraged to bring recyclable materials to school. And in the Promotion of Renewable Energies and Technologies, the ACTO Transport group acts as evaluator of technologies. The city government also conducts Mandatory Environmental Education Seminars in partnership with Greenheart Movement and the Metro Manila Anti-Smoke Belching Association. The seminar is for jeepney drivers and operators.
The experience of Pasig City indicates that program sustainability can best be achieved if the stakeholders or beneficiaries take center stage in program planning and implementation. The program must also contribute to the upliftment of the stakeholders. And to sustain all the program components, the LGU needs to enact ordinances.
To date, the LGUs of San Juan City, Marikina City, Quezon City, and City of Manila have successfully replicated the Anti-Smoke Belching operation in their own localities.


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In the map given below, you can see the populations of the different continents in the world.
In the sections below, you will see how to build a map like the one above and customize it using different attributes.
FusionCharts Suite XT accepts both JSON and XML data formats and can read them as strings from a local or remote file. Refer to the code given below for the JSON/XML representation of the data you need, to build the map shown above.
The theme file included in the code snippet shown above is called fusion (FusionCharts internal) and is present in the themes folder. You can use it to define chart cosmetics.
Create a variable named populationMap.
Create an instance of FusionCharts() object in the populationMap variable. Each map in your HTML page needs to have a separate variable. Also, note that the initialization code is wrapped within FusionCharts.ready() method. This safeguards your map instantiation code from being called before FusionCharts Suite XT library is loaded and is ready to be used on the page.
Create an instance of the world map using its alias maps/world. Each map in FusionCharts Suite XT has a unique alias. You can find the list of all maps and their aliases here.
Next, specify the width and height of the map (in pixels), using width and height properties of the constructor.
To specify the data format as JSON, set the dataFormat parameter to json.
The actual JSON data is embedded as string as the value of the dataSource parameter. Configure the functional and cosmetic attributes of your map using the list of key-value pairs contained within the chart object.
Use the colorrange object to define different numeric ranges, each associated with a color, to indicate progressive thresholds.
Set the values of showLabels and includeValueInLabels attributes to 1, to display the names and values in each continent. Next, specify the suffix of the value to be million using the numberSuffix attribute set to M.
Call the render method to render the map on the chartContainer element.
Set the value of the showLabels attribute to 1 to show labels on the map.
Set the value of the useSNameInLabels attribute to 1 to show labels on the map.
In the above map, each of the continent is entities, and their full names are part of the label.
Set the value of the includeValueInLabels attribute to 1, to display data values as part of the entity labels.
Set the labelSepChar attribute to specify the character which works as a separator between the data value and the label name. Note that this character is prefixed to the data value in the label.
In the map above, the labels are configured to show the population value along with the continent short name.
By default, a map displays labels for all entities. However, you can choose to display labels only for specific entities of interest. To do so, set the value of the showLabel attribute to 1, for only the entities that you want to show labels for. Note that to control display for specific entities, you need to define this value at an entity level.
In the example given above, you can see labels displayed only for the two most populous continents (Asia and Africa).
You can display customized label text for each specific entity. Use the displayValue attribute to do so.
In the map above, you can see the data label of each continent customized as sparse, moderate or dense, based on the population density.
Use the font attribute to specify the font to be used in the entity.
Use the fontSize attribute to specify the font size to be used in the entity.
Use the fontColor attribute to specify the font color to be used in the entity.
Use the fontBold attribute to specify whether the font should be bold formatted.
In the example above, the font is set to Helvetica and the size of the label name is proportional to the value of each entity.
By default, tooltips in maps show the full name of the entity along with the value. However, you can configure the tooltips to show only the short names. To do so, set the value of the useSNameInToolTip attribute to 1.
In FusionCharts Suite XT, tooltips are on by default. However, you can turn them off for entities. To do so, set the value of the showEntityToolTip attribute to 0.
Use the nullEntityColor attribute to set the font color for all entities with null value.
Use the nullEntityAlpha attribute to set the transparency (between 0 for transparent and 100 for opaque) for entities with null value.
Set the value of the hoverOnNull attribute to 1, to enable hover effects for entities with null value.
If you get a Loading data or an Error in loading data message, check whether your JSON data structure is correct, and ensure there are no conflicts related to quotation marks in your code.


Sometimes I get bothered by the way goats get ranked lower than sheep. Think about the implications when talking about the phrase "separating the sheep from the goats." Even the Chinese Year of the Goat, which is about to end, is sometimes listed as the Year of the Sheep or the Year of the Ram. BAAAAA!
I've raised goats. They're social animals and smart. Sheep aren't usually described that way. They also can be stubborn, maybe that fits sheep, too, I'm not sure. They are fairly good at eating omniverously -- if you still have your Christmas tree and it has no chemical treatment, they love it! They do not eat tin cans. That myth came because they love eating the glue and paper labels on cans.
When paganism had disappeared, the Southern-Slavonic legends received many elements from the Greeks and Romans. There are references to the Emperors Trajan and Diocletian as well as to mythical personages. In the Balkans, Trajan is often confused with the Greek king Midas. In the year 1433 Chevalier Bertrandon de la Broquière heard from the Greeks at Trajanople that this city had been built by the Emperor Trajan, who had goat's ears. The historian Tzetzes also mentions that emperor's goat's ears ὠτία τράγου. In Serbian legends the Emperor Trajan seems also to be confused with Dædalus, for he is given war-wings in addition to the ears.
Many of the coins of Trajan feature a marvelous heroic and realistic bust. However, when Trajan was raised to emperor the mints were faced with a quandry as they had no official portraits to copy for their engraving. Trajan complicated the issue by staying on the frontier with his troops a full year before returning to Rome. Thus, many of the early coins minted during his first consulship [COS II, 97-99 CE] bear images that were the best guesses of the celators. Often the images have a distinctive Nerva look.
I knew I had heard this story before, but I checked Amazon and the only picture book version re-telling by Katarina Jovanovic and illustrated by Phillippe Beha doesn't look familiar.
Here's Lang's version of the story.
I like playing Native American flutes and now have one from somewhere in the former Yugoslavia, possibly from Serbia. Bet the stories behind the making of my flutes can't match this one!
Whether your New Year has begun or is about to end and become the Chinese Year of the Monkey, happy storytelling!


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