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Along the Road
Although Aldous Huxley is now best known for his famous sci-fi novel, 'Brave New World', he lived such a varied life that he is always an interesting biographer. 'Along The Road' covers the experiences and sights of his time on continental Europe as he lived in Italy in the 1920s, and France in the '30s and travelled extensively. (Similarly, when he lived in California he wrote 'Beyond the Mexique Bay', which about the wilds of Central America.) This boo...
Brave New World
A young man is brought out of a "savage" reservation, where he lived somewhat like an American Indian, into an advanced and controlled, and seemingly happy and wonderful, society. He must chose to become part of that society or embrace a more natural human existence....
Eyeless in Gaza
Eyeless in Gaza is the story of Anthony Beavis and his circle of friends and acquaintances, from childhood to mid adulthood, mainly in the first decades of the twentieth century. The storyline is non-sequential, with the events shuffled, so that each chapter picks up the strand at a different point in the characters' lives.
Anthony Beavis, as a boy loses his mother and is raised by a comically pedantic father who delights in etymology--fascinating to...
The Genius and the Goddess
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, brother of Sir Julian Huxley, and grandson of the famous T.H. Huxley, took a first in English at Balliol College, Oxford. He is now best known for his science fiction oriented future vision, 'Brave New World'.
In this short novel, a tale of love and desire published in 1955, he displays his outstanding ability in dialogue as two older men recount their relationship with the genius-professor of q...
Time Must Have a Stop
Sebastian Barnack, the youthful protagonist in Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop, is a gifted poet in his teens. He is also uncommonly handsome, with an angelic face framed with curls. He despises his sweet baby faced looks, and their contrast with the serious, poetical genius he regards himself, rightly, to be.
His father is a comically dour, stern, uncompromising lawer who espouses socialist politics, and secretly resents Sebastion's resemblenc...
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Facebook buys WhatsApp
Facebook buys WhatsApp for 19,000 million dollars. The social network will pay 4,000 million in cash and 12,000 in shares and another 3,000 million in shares for WhatsApp employees in the next four years.
The California company, Facebook , announced that it has acquired the instant messaging application WhatsApp for $ 19,000 million (around 13,870 million euros as of February 20, 2014), according to information sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
WhatsApp has about 450 million monthly users in active-duty, 70 percent of them are active daily. The popularity of the service is due to the fact that more and more mobile users have opted for this messaging option versus traditional and expensive SMS.
The operation, which has not yet been carried out, will involve the disbursement of $ 4,000 million in cash, $ 12,000 million in shares in Facebook and another $ 3,000 in RSU (Restricted Stock Unit), a similar future issue to that of stock options
Source: La Vanguardia

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In order to identify a civil proceeding from a criminal case, we make use of the word “regulation” to refer to any body of legislation that is developed by a body of regulation or by a law court, consisting of the united state House of Representatives and also the United State Us senate. “Legislations” also describes the practices and customs that are essential for a working society. This interpretation is inclusive of all regulations, policy of legislation, policy, technique, or treatment that exists by federal, state, and also city governments which influences the legal rights, opportunities, immunities, and powers of people. The term “regulation” likewise includes the management legislation, which is that body of legislation that regulates the procedure of companies, bureaus, compensations, and also companies. For instance, there is the united state attorney general of the United States, who is the chief officer or lawyer of the USA Division of Justice.
A criminal proceeding describes procedures entailing offenses of regulation. Civil situations, on the other hand, refer to situations that involve problems, including wrongfully committed crimes. Civil law is more comprehensive than criminal law because it involves disagreements in between exclusive parties rather than in between government officials and also personal events. Therefore, criminal regulation and civil law overlap. The U.S. government courts have territory over criminal situations just; nevertheless, the united state courts have actually expanded their jurisdiction to civil law fits also.
The jurisdictions of the various territories form the basis of “jurisdiction” or “common law.” In many territories, there are a variety of common law jurisdictions. However, many of the jurisdictions are modern-day, creating out of and additional areas of specialization within common law jurisdictions. Common law territories include England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the District of Columbia, and New Hampshire.
Civil as well as Commercial Regulation is the body of legislation managing disputes in between people, firms, governments, and so on. While industrial law, that includes agreement law, becomes part of business law, the two kinds of regulation commonly are referred to as “judicial and also common law.” Some jurisdictions have actually created a hybrid type of civil/commercial law known as tort law. This form of legislation is ending up being more crucial with regard to issues that affect the conduct of organizations in several areas.
The extent of this write-up has been slightly wider than is required. In order for a state’s regulations to apply when discharging a claim against one more state, those insurance claims should be controlled by the state law. Nonetheless, when an insurance claim is guided against a foreign entity, such as a firm, the international entity’s legislations will generally supersede those of the United States. This is not a norm that uses with all foreign territories. The certain nature and also level of the legal rights that are safeguarded by these regulations will certainly vary among various jurisdictions.
Lawbreaker law is the body of legislation that penalizes criminal behavior. Most criminal legislation situations finish in plea deals, with the accused pleading guilty to the charges on some sort of contract. Criminal laws can also be fairly intricate. Various regulations regulate different criminal offenses, consisting of felonies, misdemeanors, as well as defenses to prosecution, such as self-defense. Each state designates as well as develops its own criminal justice system, so it is vitally important to recognize the law in your details jurisdiction.
Lots of people are not conscious that the USA Constitution is the unwritten law. Not just is the U.S. Constitution above any other law, but it covers every element of American life. It relates to all state and also federal laws, even to activities within state as well as local governments. As a result of this wide scope, criminal regulation is one of the much more complicated areas of regulation. Not every state designates and also maintains its own criminal justice system, therefore most criminal instances will certainly be attempted in state or federal courts.
A number of jurisdictions outside the USA are much less knowledgeable about this expansive body of regulation. These jurisdictions retain their own systems for providing justice. Each state appoints judges and magistrates, and also develops regulations for presenting situations. The lawful systems of these non-U.S. territories are most likely to be much less developed than the united state, and also their legal systems might not have actually developed the same customs of fair trials and also reasonable sentencing. Offender instances outside of united state borders are particularly intricate, so people thinking about tough cases within their jurisdiction need to investigate their state’s regulation as long as possible prior to choosing a legal representative.
The regulation is the body of legislations that controls habits and is made as well as imposed by federal government or social organizations to regulate conduct, with a precise meaning no question a matter of long standing debate. It is typically defined as the art and scientific research of law. There is a riches of information on the web regarding the subject of the law. The data processor of regulation that regulates the legal system in the majority of countries around the world is ordered civil law.
Civil law covers issues of personal jurisdiction over citizens within a state. This consists of taxation, trust funds, proprietorships, and also counts on that transfer residential property. A number of international agreements also have actually codified regulations dealing with these concerns. A few of these consist of the United States Internal Income Code, the Attire Commercial Code, as well as the regulations of numerous states including California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, as well as Washington.
Civil law varies slightly from country to country. Many European nations use a system that differs slightly from the version used in the United States by having a higher residence of parliament, known as the Us senate, as well as a reduced house of parliament called the House of Representatives. The distinctions are not substantial and rarely do they cause debates, yet when there is a problem between the constitution as well as regulations of a country, the high court is made use of to resolve such disagreements. The united state constitution does not have an equal to the highest court in Europe. Congress determines the credentials for judges in all fifty states. Additional hints
A major distinction between civil and also criminal law, a minimum of in the USA, is that the former is not exclusively a branch of the judicial system. The courts can not hold a criminal test unless the state or federal government enables it, and also just some federal offenses are attempted prior to a jury. The very same is true for civil instances. Most of the time, the state or federal government resolves noncriminal disputes entailing staff members, acquiring events, and also consumers. For example, dealing with differences over worker’s payment, contracting conflicts, and differences over insurance policy coverage. By comparison, situations involving state or federal criminal offenses are attempted before courts, and also only in extreme cases will certainly a conviction be carried out.

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Difference evaluation functions have resulted in excellent multiagent behaviour in many domains, including air traffic and mobile robot control. However, calculating difference evaluation functions requires determining the value of a counterfactual system objective function, which is often difficult when the system objective function is unknown or global state and action information is unavailable. In this work, we demonstrate that a local estimate of the system evaluation function may be used to estimate difference evaluations using readily available information, allowing for difference evaluations to be computed in multiagent systems where the mathematical form of the objective function is not known. This approximation technique is tested in two domains, and we demonstrate that approximating difference evaluation functions results in better performance and faster learning than when using global evaluation functions. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the learned policies on a set of Pioneer P3-DX robots.
To continue reading, please see our paper "Local Approximations of Difference Evaluation Functions", AAMAS 2016, and see our associated video here.


Thomas George Bridewell III so struck a chord with the public this year, they have voted him their 2018 BSN Bennetts British Superbike Rider of the Year.
Sacked by Halsall Racing at Snetterton, Bridewell parachuted into the Moto Rapido Ducati team and immediately felt at home, eventually taking four podiums and the Riders’ Cup.
Bridewell, who stays with the team and gets a Panigale V4 next season, eventually took 25.07 per cent of the ballot (which totalled 2783 votes altogether) to beat 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Champion Leon Haslam into second place.
Jake Dixon, who took series runner-up spot, finished this race in third place on 18.49 per cent with season late charger Tarran Mackenzie in fourth on 9.17 per cent. Tyco BMW’s Christian Iddon, who put in some heroic rides with a broken collarbone, was fifth on 8.78 per cent.


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A new Fallout game being teased by Bethesda?
While not much to go on, Bethesda appear to be teasing a new Fallout game for 2018.
A test card with the famous Fallout “Please Stand By” message is currently being shown on Twitch, as well as having been tweeted out on the official channels.
So it definitely looks like something is being announced at E3 2018.
What that could be is unknown, although it follows the same pattern of how Fallout 4 was first teased.
Images and teasers being sent out before the big LA expo is exactly how Bethesda did things in 2015.
This was followed by a huge announcement, confirming that Fallout 4 was being released that year.
As many fans will already know, Bethesda's E3 2018 press conference will stream on Twitch on Sunday, June 10.
The conference times have been confirmed as: 6:30 PM PT - 9:30 PM ET - 2:30 AM BST (June 11).
These are the first teasers from the Bethesda Studios that something new is coming from the Fallout franchise.
There’s no current indication that it is a new game, but it’s certainly going to build hype around the idea.
Fallout 3 was followed by another release a few years later in Fallout: New Vegas, so there’s no reason why this couldn’t be another spin off from the studio.
Fallout 4 proved a huge hit for Bethesda and could probably only be topped by a new game, or something from the Elder Scrolls series.
Here’s what Bethesda has posted officially about their E3 conference, writing: “Save the date!
“We're creating a special E3 evening just for you, and we hope you can join us for our fourth annual BE3 Showcase on Sunday, June 10 at 6:30 pm PT.
“Official invitations will be sent out at a later date and will contain additional details about the event and how to register.
"If you can't be there in person, you can catch it all live on Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or here at Bethesda.net."
So could this be Fallout 5? There's the chance that it could be, but there are other projects that should be considered.
Bethesda could also be teasing a new remaster project for the series, something along the lines of what was built for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Designing – Creativity in its purest form.
Being a designer has its own perks and drawbacks.
People think you are an artist who can create anything just by a small brief or little detail. Even if you are good at it, there are a lot of things that go in the process of it.
Typography, for example, holds major importance in designing. It basically refers to putting context into the content.
From a business point of view, it’s supremely important for you to understand why typography matters for your brand and how the correct size, font, color, and alignment will help you make a difference.
On the other hand, if you are a designer, it doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or an ace. Typography knowledge is something a designer can’t really say has learned and applied well.
Typography is not a lesson but an understanding which you get to observe with sheer practice and experience. A design is never complete without the text. The font, size, shape, color combination, spacing everything needs to be perfect to make the design worth everything.
The space between two letters.
Yes, that’s what kerning is all about. it is essential for every designer to know how to adjust and make it work.
Fill out that gap between two letters and make them sit together. There is one thing that confuses designers the most – Font
And in typography fonts play an integral part,
Especially when they all are beautiful and they all go with your design.
but there is a lot of other effects that go with them.
Choosing the right font is a design job half done.
This is very important for any designer to know exactly what will look good and what exactly will be read well.
Most branding companies make this common mistake and can sabotage your image as a brand if you want to go for a good branding company who can help you design your brand with the finesse, you must go for a Mumbai based branding company or other metropolitan cities for that matter as they have a better knowledge of designing and branding as compared to small town branding agencies.
It often happens that designers choose a beautiful font which later on looks bad on the hardcopy which eventually gets the whole design rejected.
Font knowledge and its usage is something very critical and no designer can ignore it. The best way to deal with it is to limit your fonts. Do take notes from different fonts and make sure that they all are highly acceptable and readable at the same time.
Have a set combination of fonts and make use of them only. It will save you a lot of time and energy.
And what difference will the designing make if the content can’t be read properly?
Left alignment is also known as Flushed text is easy and practically the most common type of alignment because it’s easy for our eyes to read.
On the other hand, Flushed right will only look good if the length of the lines and the left alignment is proper.
To know and set up the right alignment is not an easy task at all. It not only hinders the readability of the text but also in some formats looks unnecessary styled.
The top center part is mostly used as the title part of the creative which denotes the context and heading of the creative. Though it is not a rule to use the top center part as the title.
The bottom part is used for the additional information that you want to convey and this is the part where the secondary font is applied in contrast with the first.
Many times you will find that there is a lot of empty space in the design and you will feel obliged to fill it with some of your creative thoughts.
Don’t do that. Everything is there for a reason.
Space allocation is something very important when you are designing specifically for a client or a big brand you need to make sure that the message is readable and is conveyed in the right way.
Giving away too much information or just to fill in the spaces for the sake of designing is not designing at all.
Widows & Orphans
No, don’t misunderstand this. I’m not talking about people but alphabets, sentences, and paragraphs.
A widow refers to a sentence of a paragraph which has shifted to the next column, whereas an orphan is the same, but not a sentence and only a single word.
While designing it often happens that the sentences or words get an unusual shift, to avoid it do a manual edit to adjust the length of the text.
You may look forward to adjusting the text box and column size.
A word or a sentence which is out of alignment looks left out and sometimes observed as a single word trying to make its own meaning. Now, this not only makes your creative ugly but confuses the reader with unnecessary text and unstructured formatting.
Size is what determines the context and importance of any text and helps in conveying the right message. For example, it often happens in a design that due to the small size of the text, the important information is left unread, which later creates a misunderstanding which is not good at all.
While designing, you must take care of what is the primary & secondary thought you want the reader to observe, what is it that needs to be caught by a reader’s eye immediately.
Sizing the text is what gives your design a new & right perspective.
Designing being the core art, typography is what provides the right amount of feel to it. The first thing a reader’s eye will look for in a design is the text to understand the message and context of it. Thus, it always needs to be clear and to the point else you will mislead the reader into something else.
All these typography tips will help you become a good designer.
Author Bio: Prakhar is a passionate and enthusiastic content specialist at Walnut Folks. He loves writing short novels and blogs and is a connoisseur of Urdu poetry. As an aspiring filmmaker at heart, he ardently follows the works of Anurag Kashyap, Gulzar, Piyush Mishra, and Christopher Nolan. When not found at his desk, you can expect him to be either dancing to an upbeat Bollywood number, or humming some Sufi tunes.

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The Guided Busway is a huge success. It carries many adults and youth to and from many destinations, a major destination being the Cambridge Regional College bus stop. Unfortunately, the volume of bicycle and pedestrian traffic along the line of the busway at this point probably wasn’t considered and is now causing problems. It will probably cause even more problems once the new Science Park Station is built at the far end of the busway.
When I started looking at this junction, I tried to ignore what was “built” and instead tried to observe how people moved through the junction. In the first diagram I’ve shown the main desire lines. Desire lines are where people actually move rather than those which engineers designed. For example, when crossing the access road to the college, from the busway, people walked in as straight a line as possible pretty much ignoring the supposed 90º toucan crossing.
Many people on bicycles don’t bother with the toucan but instead just wait for a gap between the traffic light phases and quickly scoot across. Many people ignore what has been designed and have found new, possibly better, ways through the junction - for example, creating a path from King Hedges Road over bare ground. This informal crossing obviously works, but is it safe? Do the bus drivers expect people to cross at this point?
There are many conflict points, some less bothersome than others. The two biggest problems are at the bus stop exit junction with the science park entrance, and between the toucan crossing and the brick surround of the gas supply for the area. When cycling there can be many people trying to cross the road, especially after the bus has stopped, or just before classes are due to start, all getting in your way. Of course, we are getting in their way too, and this isn’t helped by the poor sight lines.
I would therefore summarise that the problems are simply:
1. Severely limited space at the toucan crossing and busway crossing points.
2. Informal pedestrian crossing show junction isn’t working as desired.
3. Very narrow access to science park with poor sight lines.
First, we should always respect peoples desire lines. They are voting with their feet, it is obviously safe enough for them to do it day after day, and they have left plenty of evidence that it works by wearing down the grass. So we should make this a proper pedestrian route. This actually has two benefits: it moves a lot of the pedestrian traffic to the west side of the busway stop reducing the number of people at the science park entrance, and it allows a more “directed” path to the north side of that brick building.
Second, we should separate the CRC traffic and guided busway traffic as much as possible at the CRC junction. The busway traffic should follow their natural desire line which is straight on. There are wide turning splays for buses to access the busway from the CRC, yet no buses do this. We should remove them and make a straight on toucan in line with the busway. The CRC traffic would be given their own toucan on the north side of the brick building. Some of the existing railing (cycle parking) here may need to be removed, and the car stop line pushed back a car length or so. The space between the car stop line and the new toucan could usefully become an advanced cycle box.
Third, we should build a proper segregated footway to the north of the cycle track that links to the existing footway going to the “new” toucan. This would be built similar to the Coton path such that pedestrian traffic would be encouraged to seek the higher and safer ground.
Forth, we should straighten the line for access from the science park to the busway. The current facility bends away from the busway crossing, is very narrow, and limits the flow. I’ve seen times when people are queuing cross the busway to travel through this gate. On the south side, the highly restrictive chicane should be removed. People happily cross the busway at multiple points without problems, as here the buses are moving very slowly as they approach the station.
Lastly, we should alter the phasing of the traffic lights. A simple desire for people on bicycle is to wait as little time as possible, but we take very little time to cross a road. Therefore, I would suggest that bicycles are given a green light between every car phase, but only for a few seconds. They should also be given a green light whenever the busway is given a green light. The individual phases may need to be lengthened slightly, say from 25 seconds to 30 seconds to maintain the “capacity”, but the advantages it gives to bicycles would be huge. Also, the pedestrian crossing could be changed to a zebra crossing. This route would then become preferable to the slower toucan crossing further pulling people away. It would also allow for a much more pedestrian focused environment around what should be highly walkable area.

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All these years later, we see the grand experiment known as America working just as the Founding Fathers envisioned, with people voting with their feet.
A phenomenon that’s spelling bad news for liberal bastions like San Francisco.
The Golden Gate City, better known these days for its sanctuary city policies that led to the murder of Kate Steinle at the hands of an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times, is seeing a mass exodus of residents.
The number of people packing up and moving out of the Bay Area hit its highest level in more than a decade, KPIX-TV reported.
And it’s showing no signs of slowing down.
According to the CBS affiliate, more people are leaving the San Francisco area than ever before and the area now leads the nation in outward migration.
“I loved it here when I first got here. I really loved it here. But it’s just not the same,” retired engineer Carole Dabak told KPIX-TV.
Dabak has lived in the area for 40 years, but is now moving to Tennessee.
The high cost of housing is seen as a key reason, but San Francisco’s liberal policies also factor in.
“We don’t like it here anymore,” Dabak said, citing politics, crime and crowding. “You know, we don’t like this sanctuary state status and just the politics here.”
Data from the FBI showed that San Francisco has the highest property crime rate per capita in the nation’s top 50 cities, SFist reported in April 2016.
Critics point to the passing of Proposition 47 in California which downgraded many “non-serious, nonviolent crimes” from felonies to misdemeanors. Prop 47 also released thousands from prison.
Homelessness is also a major problem in the city. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2017 that despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to address it, the problem is as bad as ever.
Seeing a homeless person defecate or urinate in public in San Francisco is a common sight. The problem is so pervasive, an online map is needed to track human feces on city streets, according to Fox News.
“There’s a very tolerant attitude, you can very much do anything on the streets you want,” Marc Joffe, director of research at the California Policy Center, told Fox News.
The surprise may not be over the number of people fleeing the liberal city, but over how long it has taken for them to do so.
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Swinhoe Pheasants - Juveniles 4-6 months
Swinhoe’s Pheasant was named after the naturalist, Robert Swinhoe, who first described the species in his writings. Also known as the Taiwan Blue Pheasant, the bird is often considered a national symbol to the Taiwanese.
Breeding season falls between March-June. The female typically nests on the ground, and you can expect up to 6 eggs per clutch. Diet consists of seeds, fruit, greens, and game bird pellet.
Our pheasants are not pinioned.
All Swinhoe Pheasants are juveniles, 4-6 months old.

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DAMANSARA, 4 Jan: Today, PKR claims that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s action of designating the construction of the National Defence Education Centre (Puspahanas) to the Selangor Wanita Umno Chief is only motivated by windfall profits.
Today, PKR Strategy Director, Rafizi Ramli in a press conference revealed the review of the Companies Commission of Maaysia (SSM), showing that Awan Megah is a company that has had no activity since it was established until now, with the last financial record files on 31 December 1993.
On 8 June 2005, Najib, who was the Defence Minister at the time, awarded Alam Megah Sdn Bhd, a company owned by the Selangor Wanita Chief, Senator Datuk Raja Ropiah Raja Abdullah, the Puspahanas privatisation project that involves design works and the construction of the military training college.
“Therefore, Awan Megah is forced to appoint another company as a partner to finance and complete the project, while bearing the entire cost while Raja Ropiah, through Awan Megah, makes an easy profit.
“The partner that was chosen is a company called GuppyUnip Sdn Bhd that only acquired credit facilities form United Overseas Bank (UOB) on 21 July 2010, five years after Awan Megah was awarded the project.
“This means that the project was delayed for five years because Awan Megah did not have the capital and was still looking for a partner,” Rafizi explained.
More surprisingly, Rafizi said, GuppyUnip that was established on 9 December 2009 is not a company with experience in construction.
Instead, the company that was founded by businessman Cheong Chow Koh, was found to have extensive experience in toothbrush manufacturing through his primary company Unip Berhad.
Inspection of GuppyUnip the credit facilities letter from UOB also clearly shows the overall capital of RM59.25 million was payment for Awan Megah by GuppyUnip.
In fact GuppyUnip also had to bear the premium payments to the Selangor State Government for the grant transfer process and the conversion of land status of 223.44 acres to Awan Megah, that was originally gazetted to build a military camp.
“The situation now is like the whole project and the land is given to GuppyUnip, a toothbrush manufacturing company while Najib Razak leaves Awan Megah, owned by the Selangor Wanita Chief, to reap profit on a windfall by being awarded ‘prime land’ in Shah Alam,” Rafizi said.
In relation to that, PKR will be making reports to the police and to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) simultaneously across the country this coming Monday to urge for an immediate investigation on the current Malaysian Prime Minister regarding his abuse of power and embezzlement.


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The Greater Pike Community Foundation (GPCF) recently received $10,000 from Wayne Bank and $5,000 from The Dime Bank in PA Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) funds to enhance educationally advanced curriculum at the Delaware Valley (DVSD) and East Stroudsburg Area School (ESASD) Districts. As an approved Educational Improvement Organization (EIO), Greater Pike is able to connect eligible EITC businesses with targeted educational programs within our public schools that are worthy of funding and support.
Through the PA Department of Community and Economic Development’s EITC program, Greater Pike yearly provides significant funding for innovative educational programming enhancements in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at both DVSD and ESASD. In 2016-2017 the funding will support academically advanced science-based programs utilizing digital microscopes, a summer science camp, and the development of nature trails and an outdoor classroom.
Executive Director Jenni Hamill of Greater Pike said, “The Greater Pike Community Foundation greatly values our partnership with the Wayne and Dime Banks and the PA Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). Working together through the EITC program we are able to make an important contribution to the students in our area and help prepare them for successful futures. A worthy COMMUNITY endeavor!”

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- Consumer choices: Not at all. You are still going to be stuck with one cable option for television. You will have Direct TV and Dish as satellite options and in many areas AT&T U-verse through your phone wire (if you have one). Comcast and TWC do not compete in any market head to head. Both are notorious for abysmal consumer service and negligible innovation; no reason to expect any improvement here.
- Prices: Possibly a plus. By combining overhead functions, the merger should produce some economies of scale. More importantly, the combined company will have more bargaining power with content providers. People see the rising cable bills year after year and blame the cable provider; they do not see the upward ratchets in content costs, so they give Walt Disney (owner of ESPN) and NBC Universal (owner of Weather Channel, along with Blackstone and Bain) a pass.
- Internet speed: If you are thinking about cutting the cable cord, realize that in most places the cable company is likely to be your fastest source for internet. Triple play pricing makes the cost of basic cable plus internet not all that much higher than basic cable by itself. Pray that Google Fiber will come to your town soon.
- Number of cable subscriptions: Still likely to fall. Too much good stuff for free or at low cost on the internet; sports is the only exception and you have to think ESPN and the major networks will soon figure out a way to sell sporting events on the spot market instead of sticking to the cable bundle.
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Competition: Architecture of Social Investment
The architecture of social investment engages in social and green business strategies to shape the future of our cities. If major parts of our contemporary cities are self-built by their inhabitants, how can they be supported to do so in accordance with societal and ecological requirements? How can architecture and urban design support socially engaged business to foster sustainable urban development? How can a local project become a model for other communities?
The urbaninform Competition 2010 is calling for architecture and urban design projects, which engage in and cooperate with social entrepreneurship and green business. The project should be realized or developed to the level of being implemented.
Are you an architect, an urban designer, a social entrepreneur, a government official, a foundation or simply an individual or group engaging in the sustainable future of our cities?
Does your project empower individuals and communities to become economically independent?
Does your project understand architecture as business opportunity?
Does your project allow the community to generate or maintain services, infrastructure and education facilities?
If your project is a social investment, submit and win!
More than half of the world’s population is living in cities. Most of those cities are growing informally, with little or no professional planning intervention. One third of this urban population – about one billion people – can be considered urban poor, living in sub-standard conditions. And their number is growing. The investment required for the prevention and upgrading of their precarious housing is estimated to reach over 300 billion US$ in the coming 20 years. No government will be able to finance this upgrading process.
The emergence of this urban growth phenomenon and alternative economies are intrinsically related. It is the urban population that is constructing the city, doing business, cooperating, socializing and organizing it! It is time to reevaluate these self-organizing powers and support new ways of urban governance.
Social and green businesses are new domains combining entrepreneurship with social and ecological values. They establish links between civic society and private industry. Social and green businesses are important players in good urban governance initiatives fostering the cooperation of government, civil society and private industry.
The competition is looking for design projects that reflect this new spirit of sustainable urban production. How can we shape new models for socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable urban economies? How can projects support ecological responsibility, economic independence and social emancipation?
Until now, few efforts have been undertaken in relating social business initiatives with the making of the territory they are taking place in: the city. In the future, architecture and urban design will play a crucial part in developing strategies and tactics along with sustainable business initiatives – for a better, socially just and ecologically sound urban environment.
With the support of Noah Foundation, the 2010 urbaninform competition awards the following prizes:
1st Prize: USD 2’000
2nd Prize: USD 1’500
3rd Prize: USD 1’000
Go to www.urbaninform.net. Become a Member. Log in and create a mini documentary on your project online and complete the info-sheet (it is one step in the production process of your mini documentary). This process does not have to be completed at once, you can always pause and save your work.
When you have posted your mini documentary successfully, please send us an email to:email@example.com with: your (1) name, (2) name of your organization, (3) address, (4) title of mini-documentary and (5) a text of max. 500 words explaining why your project is an architecture of social investment according to the competition brief.
Your completed mini documentary and your email are the required submission formats.
The judges’ decision is final.
Social Investment Criteria
One or more of these might apply to your project:
* Empowering individuals and communities to become economically independent * Spaces and buildings allowing for and supporting business opportunities * Spaces and buildings which themselves generate income * Spaces that support the concept of good urban governance * the cooperation of government, civil society and private industry
* Equality of opportunities in development * Community empowerment and participation in governance processes *Fostering tolerance, education, cultural diversity or social mix
* Responsible use of resources in construction and maintenance * Improvement of the urban climatic and living condition * Infrastructure for the better management of waste, water and energy
* Innovation in design and construction * Spaces performing according to the needs and lifestyles of their users *Spaces of gathering and interaction
Announcement of competition: September 1st, 2010
Submission deadline: November 1st, 2010
Announcement of winners: December 10th, 2010, Center for Architecture, New York
at the urbaninform Podium “The Architecture of Social Investment”
Dr. Susan Draeger, Buro Happold
Rainer Hehl, urbaninform / ETH Zurich
Dr. Andres Lepik, Museum of Modern Art New York
Dr. Andreas Renner, GEXSI
Peter Spiegel, Genesis Institute
Prof. Jörg Stollmann, urbaninform / TU Berlin
Dr. Fran Tonkiss, London School of Economics
GEXSI, Genesis Institute, Noah Foundation, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, ThinkSwiss, Museum of Modern Art New York


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Were you shocked at how much more money they needed? You know, when this first started, it seemed they were driving backwards instead of looking forward. There didn't seem to be a coherent.... Well, they just didn't seem to be together at first. There were more people leaving the commission than staying on.
Have we learned anything by it?

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This doesn't really focus on assembly as a positive trait per se, simply because it's just pure trombones without much effects added. So 'nuff said.
I mean, it's alright. It's always good to listen to a bunch of trombones playing random crap. But after a while it gets a little tiring. This is more experimental than anything, so why not just add a couple of little touches here and there? Won't hurt :)
It's interesting how you guys react to each other's melodies, but not entertaining enough to hold my interest for 2 minutes :P
This definitely an interesting experiment, and not much more.
I like your ambition. Depends on what your goals are: to make money, to make pleasing music, or to make music that's fun to play :) Thanks for letting me listen
Average score: 4.3/10
Rounded Score: 4/10
Verdict: Needs improvement!
Thanks once again for the constructive review.
I agree almost 100% with what you said, the goal was merely a test of the ability to read the other's actions fast enough to make a song without premeditation to make a piece of perfect quality.
If I manage to find another time to get into the recording studio with my friend, I'll look into seeing about finding some other instrumentalists on different instruments and see if a something can be achieved that way. :)
By the by, you can skip over the recordings if they bore you. They are more of an expression of style and an explanation of my musical background than actual compositions, simply because I never wrote down the notes or the keys or the rhythms.
Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.


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By: Dr. Philip Schalow
I like meeting people. Sometimes, when it is discovered I am a licensed chiropractor, the conversation becomes, like in a chess game, the “end game.” “I have never had to go to a chiropractor,” I am told by my new-found conversationalist. And then, the meeting falters and quits, like an old Ford that has an obstruction in its fuel filter. What is meant when someone says, “I never had to go to a chiropractor?”
Chiropractic is commonly thought of as a health-care specialty that has to do with back pain, because chiropractors work in some way on the backbone, or spine. What is overlooked is the fact that the system of interest for the chiropractor is actually the nerve system, which is supposed to be protected by the bony skull and spinal structures. Unfortunately, trauma to these bony structures can move them out of proper position and create abnormal pressures on the nerves they surround. This will cause functional problems like headaches, incontinence, digestive upset, infertility and even high blood pressure. The famous Windsor autopsies, done in 1920, showed that pathological changes in body organs was related to spinal segments that pressed on the nerves feeding those organs. Nearly 100 years later, medical research supports the use of a specialized chiropractic adjustment in normalizing high blood pressure for certain types of patients.
Dr. George Bakris, head of the Hypertension Center at Rush University, found to his surprise that hypertensive patients who had no pain (which all by itself can cause high blood pressure) lowered their blood pressure without drugs only by having this chiropractic procedure done to them. The NUCCA procedure (National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association) was performed on 25 out of 50 subjects to correct a neurologically and radiographically measurable misalignment (called a subluxation) of the head and neck. All 25 subjects had normal blood pressure at the end of the eight-week study period. So, if you assume that chiropractic is for back pain, then none of these patients was a candidate for chiropractic. But, if you correctly perceive that chiropractic is for interference on the nerves that run everything in your body, then signs of neurological disturbance can include anything that is out of the ordinary, such as high blood pressure, vision or hearing problems, or non-sensory issues like tremors and bowel problems. And best of all, a person can be helped if the subluxation is present and correctable.
Dr. Marshall Dickholtz, the adjusting doctor in the blood pressure study, stated in an interview with WebMD, “This procedure helps many more problems than just high blood pressure.”
So, next time you are tempted to say you are lucky to have never needed a chiropractor, just look to see if you have ever had surgery for some organ breakdown, or are taking any kind of medication. You might find that those seemingly age-related problems are signs your nerve system is not working up to its full potential.
About the Author
Dr. Philip Schalow is the owner of 1st Step Chiropractic, S.C.
Driven by disability, Dr. Schalow began asking questions about where health comes from in 1979, while suffering from the pain of tendonitis in the left hand. Also known as “overuse injury”, it prevented completion of his violin performance degree. At this point, the Alexander Technique became a practical procedure to work out the problem of tension. After regaining function, Dr. Schalow completed music studies and became devoted to music performance and teaching the Alexander Technique.
By 1994, through working with children and adults in music teaching settings, it became clear that there could also be structural impediments to optimum function. Then “the light bulb went on” and the whole picture began to emerge of how structure and function work hand in hand to either build or impede coordination
Rockford’s center for the NUCCA procedure. Call his office at (815) 398-4500, or visit myrockfordchiropractor.com.

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NCI Drug Dictionary
The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for drugs/agents used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to cancer. Each drug entry includes links to check for clinical trials listed in NCI's List of Cancer Clinical Trials.
- Mps1 kinase inhibitor BAY1161909
An orally bioavailable, selective inhibitor of the serine/threonine monopolar spindle 1 (Mps1) kinase, with potential antineoplastic activity. Upon administration, the Mps1 kinase inhibitor BAY1161909 binds to and inhibits the activity of Mps1. This causes inactivation of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), accelerated mitosis, chromosomal misalignment, chromosomal missegregation, mitotic checkpoint complex destabilization, and increased aneuploidy. This leads to the induction of cell death in cancer cells overexpressing Mps1. Mps1, a kinase expressed in proliferating normal tissues and aberrantly overexpressed in a wide range of human tumors, is activated during mitosis and is essential for SAC functioning and controls chromosome alignment. Check for active clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)
Code name: BAY1161909


Why the RS-485 S-Bus communication between the PCD master and the slave does fail sometime, if FW 1.28.20…1.28.33 is used?
It’s possible that the some of the S-Bus telegrams transferred from the PCD S-Bus master to the S-Bus slaves over RS485 are malformed, and the S-Bus slave does reject the request from the master.
This could lead to the situation that for example the PCD S-Bus master don’t receive actual values from E-Line RIO’s or that the program download of a PCD program from the PC to a Slave PCD which is located behind a gateway PCD, fails.
The firmware update of the PCD who act as S-Bus master with a firmware 1.28.34 or newer solves the issue.
Programmable PCD devices that act as S-BUS master on RS485 with PCD Firmware >= 1.28.20 and <= 1.28.33 get no answer from Slave devices on some of the S-Bus master requests, although S-BUS address, baud rate, polarity and line termination are ok.
Possible effects of the issue
Until now we have found that E-Line RIO communication seems to be more concerned of this problem than e.g. RS485 S-Bus data communication between CPU's.
In some of the cases the effect was, that it was not possible to write to the outputs of the E-Line RIO's or the change of values on the E-Line RIO Inputs was not transfered to the S-Bus master.
With the concerned Firmware it might be very difficult or impossible to download the user program over a gateway connection.
PCD Firmware 1.28.x for all programmable PCD types are concerned.
The reason of the issue is a error in the Firmware of the S-Bus master.
The problem on the Firmware is, that telegrams which contain DLE characters (B5 or C5) as last character of the telegram (CRC) where malformed because the last character is missing.
Since the CRC is calculated during runtime this malformed S-Bus request occurs depending of the content of the S-Bus request.
The (malformed) CRC is transfered with the S-Bus request from the master to the slave.
If now the slave receives the S-Bus request and the received CRC does not fit with the calculated CRC, then the S-Bus slave reject the S-Bus telegram.
In case you use the concerned Firmware on an installation with RS485 S-Bus Data communication, update the S-Bus master PCD to the newest available Firmware >= 1.28.34.
PCD1 / _Firmware Classic
PCD2 / _Firmware Classic
PCD3 / _Firmware Classic
PCD1 / E-Line
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An orthodontic assessment
A full explanation of your treatment options
A written treatment plan
Advice on how to keep your teeth and gums healthy during orthodontic treatment
Information about this practice and the services available
Treatment summary if you decided to transfer to another orthodontist
Make a complaint if you are not happy with your treatment and care, please refer to our complaints posters and leaflets available within the practice
Giving at least 24 hours notice if you have to cancel or change an appointment. We will not charge you for missed appointments- but if you miss more than two appointments we may have to discontinue your NHS treatment. We will take any special circumstances into account.
Following your orthodontists advice to prevent tooth decay and gum disease
Paying for treatment fees promptly if applicable
Treating our staff with courtesy and respect. Patients who are violent or abusive to practice personnel, to other patients or anyone else on the practice premises will be refused treatment and reported to the appropriate authorities
Your dental records will remain confidential and secure. However, from time to time we may need to release these to a regulatory organisation, e.g. the General Dental Council. We will contact you before releasing your dental records to any other organisation.
Complaints, comments and feedback.
Kent Orthodontics takes complaints seriously. Please see our complaints policy at reception. Should we be unable to resolve your complaint in-house, please feel free to The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman on 0345 015 4033.
We also welcome comments and feedback through our practice questionnaires, which are located in the waiting rooms.
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Always very friendly and helpful as my daughter is autistic.
Both my daughters have had their braces here and they have been looked after really well.

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My blog tour resumes today with some fun posts: I’m discussing vintage gardening tools, Clash of the Titans, and Noon’s mom’s growing gifts over at Night Owl Reviews and I’m at The Reading Café discussing my covers. I know I’ve discussed them before, but I share more about the process, covers in general, and give each of my covers a “stat report.” If fantasy covers were baseball cards, click here for what would be on the back of mine. Finally, I’m wrapping up my Release Day Party at Bitten by Books. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by, there’s still time! Readers have asked TONS of terrific questions — and I’ve answered them, in great detail. Skim through for more background on just about everything or leave a question of your own!
Local Lending Libraries
And because I like to include pics w my posts… here are two for all of the book, coffee, and pizza lovers out there => Starbuck’s and Bertucci’s versions of the local lending library. I like it!

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Listening to the dulcet voice of my generation cooing
At the crying child of our future doing an impression of nature
I wear a bespoke suit of full-body goosebumps.
My eyes would overflow their eroded banks if clean water weren’t an issue
But it’s 2018
And it is,
And my blood would spill outwards a free mosquito banquet
If someone else didn’t own that too.
Every day more horrendous acts in the name of reason and science
And only art to dress the wounds:
A little girl crying in her room googling how to make her skin thicker
How to build a mask out of dead cells and crazy glue
We’re all artists!
Especially when we least realise it
Because the best art is uncontrived and flows naturally in and out of the heart without conscious effort
We are all artists and that may be the only redeeming face we wear
The only thing worth leaving carved into this blue planet
With the strip mines and potholes
As if the earth were ivory pre-1989 and free to own, sell and scar
Businessmen are lauded as artists for excellence in their field
Tools of devastation are considered works of art
A murderer practises his sordid art
We name our kids after artists
And we name our art after disasters
Because everything horrendous still must have a name.


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Looks like the “Fab Four” – China, North Korea, Iran, and the Taliban — are queuing up just as we wrote about earlier this week,
We also wonder if the Administration is on the verge of a “deals galore” flurry with, say, China, North Korea, Iran, and the Taliban (“the Fab Four”) before the election? We are perplexed by, and the way John Bolton exited the White House yesterday,
And as impulsive and unpredictable as the president’s actions may be, firing Mr. Bolton reveals a certain consistency in Mr. Trump’s worldview: Though attracted to never-been-done theatrics like bringing the Taliban to Camp David or meeting with Mr. Kim, the president is also moored by suspicion of military adventures and has a huge appetite for deals.
What Mr. Trump really wants from his foreign policy is a diplomatic victory as he heads into his 2020 re-election campaign. — NY Times, Sept 10th
Why do we have that sinking feeling the “Fab Four” are licking their chops and looking at each other, thinking
Time to feast! – GMM, Sept 12th
New York Magazine out with a must-read piece today (Hat tip: ThinkInTheMorning).
The following are the money quotes but make sure to click on and read the entire article.
- President Trump has not given up on his idea that the week marking the 18th anniversary of 9/11 should also be let’s-make-deals-with-thugs week
- Kim Jong-un’s displeasure had been part of his thinking in firing national security adviser John Bolton
- the last straw for Bolton was his strenuous objection to Trump’s plan for a secret Camp David summit with Taliban and Afghan leaders
- those regimes won’t forget the aborted Taliban summit — and the lessons it provided on Trump’s negotiating tactics — so easily
- Inviting Taliban leaders to Camp David in spite of this tells foreign adversaries that a body count is no impediment to dealmaking with Trump
- It appears a major reason the Camp David summit was hastily arranged in recent weeks — and fell apart even more quickly — was Trump’s desire to put his own stamp on a deal that negotiators had been working on for a nearly a year
- The lesson here for foreign leaders is that if you want a deal with Trump, deal with Trump. The president apparently cut the National Security Council — whose entire reason for existing is to coordinate across government agencies — and most of the government out of his plan to hug it out with the Taliban
- Both Tehran and Pyongyang will look at what emerged over the weekend and see how desperate Trump is for splashy deals, and the accompanying photo ops
- It has been clear for weeks now that a funny shuttle diplomacy has been taking place between Washington and Tehran
- All of which suggests the drama surrounding Trump’s aborted Taliban summit and Bolton’s sudden exit were just the back-to-school preview for a fall of Trump-style diplomacy, in which personality is everything, the U.S. diplomatic infrastructure is near-irrelevant, and a soupçon of violence just might help your case.
- Buckle up – NY Magazine, Sept 13
Quadruple Fracking Yikes!
This is a very disturbing article.
The “Fab Four” are lining up and preparing to feast on a politically desperate, unprepared and ignorant president, who thinks he “knows more than…the Generals.”
One would think the body politic and markets would see right through this. That is the cutting of meaningless “all show and no dough” Potemkin deals, especially after all the economic and diplomatic carnage that Trump’s posturing has brought upon the country and the world. But nothing surprises us anymore.
Hey, it’s politics, folks, no rational thinking needed. Just wave that flag, close your eyes, click your ruby red shoes together and repeat, “the greatest deals ever.”
Primus inter pares
The U.S. position, both economically and diplomatically, would have been so much stronger had the country remained in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the original Iran deal. America will be weaker and less safe with these deals, if realized.
America First among equals (primus inter pares), always trumps America First and is much more effective in serving the national interest and keeping America safe. History has proven it.
No surprise, however, The Art of the Deal, since the administration has come to power, has repeatedly shown that it is driven by impulse with no strategy, all sizzle, no steak and no gain, all pain.


He Bitcoinand consequently the rest of the cryptocurrenciesseemed already ousted at the end of 2022, reaching lows that had not been seen for years, and many venturing that the best times of digital currency had passed and, as always, they have been wrong.
With the beginning of 2023, Bitcoin has not stopped rising, stabilizing above $20,000 and with estimates that it could reach highs again by the end of the year.
Once again, those who sold out of fear lose their money and those who held on will now become rich again.
But this is not escaping the experts, and yet John Griffina finance professor at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, sees the current pattern as much the same as it was in 2017, and believes there is some manipulation.
Around that time in 2017, they saw that it seemed like someone or a group was using a lot of money to manipulate the market for their own benefit. Then in 2018, they were able to discern that a single Bitcoin whale, meaning some user who owns huge amounts of Bitcoin, would be taking advantage of the market situation.
And now the behavior of Bitcoin since the end of 2022 draws the attention of this expert again. And it is that despite the collapse of cryptocurrencies, every time Bitcoin briefly exceeded the floor of $16,000 it bounced above that level and kept.
However, Bitcoin is maintaining the opposite direction to what was thought, and has already reached up to $23,000 recently, now standing at around $21,600.
“It’s very suspicious. The same mechanism that we saw in 2017 and could be in play now in the still unrealistic Bitcoin market.”, points to fortune.
He comments that Bitcoin is a very volatile cryptocurrency but that in the most stormy times, that is, at the end of last year, it stabilized in very unusual scenarios: “if you are a cryptocurrency manipulator, you want to set a floor under the price of your coin. In a period of very negative sentiment, we have seen suspiciously strong bottoms under Bitcoin”.
In any case, no definitive proof of this manipulation has yet emerged: “the space is larger now, so it is more difficult to extract the data. Sophisticated gamers can be experts at hiding their identities”, he comments.
However, it does not rule out that these practices will come to light in the numerous bankruptcy court proceedings that are currently underway.
However, he thinks he sees a series of evidence that Bitcoin is benefiting from some kind of coordinated buying, as if preparing for a takeoff to the highs in the coming months.
In fact, from November 5, the day before the FTX reports began to spread, until November 9, Bitcoin fell from $21,000 to $15,900.
then the currency, which is usually super volatile, remained flat, and that is that between the 62 days between November 10 and January 11, it traded between $16,000 and $17,000. Then, from January 12 to 24, Bitcoin began an upward march to reach $23,000.
But other experts do not see anything strange with the behavior of Bitcoin
However, other cryptocurrency experts see no plot to inflate these prices but rather the market literally works fine: “Price movements in Bitcoin are notoriously cyclical in nature. Often the best explanation is the most boring.“, comments andrew thurmana researcher at Blockchain analytics provider Nansen.
Add that “in this case, the price of Bitcoin is rising because there are more buyers than sellersThurman adds.
“I don’t see a group that retains prices. Now we have a balanced dynamic. The forced sale that followed the FTX collapse has been absorbed to some extent and we see no more forced sales.“, Add Vetle Lundea senior analyst at Norwegian crypto data analysis firm Arcane Research.


NANJING, China, October 15th 2014 – CSUN, a specialized manufacturer of solar cells and modules, is pleased to announce the shipment of 3 MW of poly modules to in the US market.
The ground-mounted solar plant located in North Carolina consists of 4608 CSUN305-72P and 5302 CSUN300-72P polycrystalline “Made in Turkey” modules from CSUN’s production in Istanbul-Tuzla. CSUN recently completed module shipment to this project.
“We are pleased to be able to offer high-efficiency modules from our Turkish factory and thus ensuring reliable supply to our valued customers in the US“ states CSUN’s CEO Tingxiu Lu.
About CSUN (China Sunergy Co., Ltd.)
CSUN designs, manufactures and delivers high efficiency solar cells and modules to the world from its production centers based in Turkey and China. CSUN also invests in high potential solar projects. Founded in 2004, CSUN is well known for its advanced solar cell technology, reliable product quality, and excellent customer service. For additional information, please visit http://www.csun-solar.com
Mr. Engin Yaman
CSUN Europe GmbH


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It was a sea of smiles in Eumundi all weekend with music-lovers embracing the chance to see top-notch Australian bands at the OFFBEAT MUSIC FESTIVAL held at The Imperial Hotel Eumundi on Saturday 26 March.
The festival was a sold-out event, boasting a line-up that featured Holy Holy, Rolling
Blackouts Coastal Fever, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, Hayley Mary, Dallas Frasca,
Kallidad, Dear Doonan, Kurilpa Reach, Karl S. Williams, Fragile Animals, Palomino III, The
Rumbrellas and Betty Taylor.
Organiser Alice Jones says fans relished in the chance to see such stellar acts take to the
“The energy was truly electric, with musicians stoked to be performing again after the last
couple of challenging years, and a crowd that were blown away by the calibre of artists,”
“Music brings people together and seeing our crowd having so much fun was truly
amazing,” she said. “The bands commented on the feeling of community too – they felt the
love from Eumundi, and after a couple of very tough years in our industry, that was really
great to hear.”
The Offbeat Music Festival was proudly supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand Fund (RISE) – an Australian Government initiative.
The good vibes continued the next day for the free outdoor community event PARK
SOUNDS, held in the centre of town in Caplick Park. Families enjoyed craft and educational
workshops, face painting for kids, a special performance by the Gubbi Gubbi Dancers, then
a line-up of bands featuring Frank & Louis, Jam & Scones and The Long Johns.


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A new initiative in California is seeking to enable teens and young adults to order condoms online and have them delivered straight to their house, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The program, which was launched by the California Department of Public Health and the California Family Health Council, intends to improve rates of condom use among young people by eliminating the awkwardness and discomfort of buying condoms in a store.
"The California Family Health Council agrees that abstinence is the most effective way to prevent STDs and unintended pregnancy," Amy Moy, the council's vice president of public affairs, told the news source. "But we know many teens are engaging in sexual activity, so we want help them be as safe as possible."
When safe sex practices such as wearing a condom are combined with regular STD testing, it can have a positive effect on overall disease transmission rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that screening is one of the best ways to stop the spread of infections.
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Posted Tue Sep 25th by Ian Henson
The NFL has just announced that they will be suspending Denver Broncos middle linebacker Joe Mays for one game due to a hit he delivered Sunday to Houston Texans‘ quarterback Matt Schaub. The hit left Schaub missing a portion of his earlobe.
Mays has apologized to Schaub twice and Schaub accepted, but apologies and accepted apologies are not enough in this NFL. Mays was fined two weeks ago the NFL minimum ($7,875) for a hit against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan.
This one is going to be a bit more pricey, Mays is fined $50,000 for the hit on Schaub and will also lose a game check.
Mays could appeal the decision, but for now he will not be allowed to attend the Broncos’ facility in Dove Valley nor will he be allowed to play this Sunday as the Broncos face the Oakland Raiders at home.
Denver is already a bit thin at linebacker, after losing DJ Williams to a six-game suspension. Undrafted rookie Steven Johnson is listed behind Mays on the depth chart and could likely see a start unless, the Broncos see fit to rotate the roster somehow. Both Nate Irving (who was knocked out of Sunday’s game with a concussion) and starting outside linebacker Wesley Woodyard have middle linebacker experience.
With Mays being out of the line-up it could be a golden opportunity to see the rookie Johnson who stood out in training camp and the preseason. Johnson has been inactive on the Broncos roster since week one.

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Driving While Black: Racing, Space, and Mobility in America, the latest documentary from filmmaker and seasonal Chilmark resident Ric Burns, is now broadcast on PBS and streamed on the station’s website.
While the film’s title is taken from current events, the arrests, beatings, and shootings of unarmed black motorists in 21st century America form only part of its sweeping narrative, which strongly argues that black mobility has always encountered resistance here.
“The point of the film is that there are roots and you have to understand those roots,” Burns told the Gazette over the phone this week from New York City. “You can’t just take things, terrible moments for terrible moments, and just stagger away with excruciating pain because it doesn’t come out of nowhere.”
Mr. Burns co-directed the film with Gretchen Sorin, author of the book Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, which also appears on screen. With longtime associates of Mr. Burns, Emir Lewis, who lives in Oak Bluffs, and composer Brian Keane, the directors have woven a compelling story of vintage imagery, films, lyrics, music, interviews with contemporary scholars, and the occasional animated illustration .
Drive while Black is currently airing on PBS> – Courtesy of Ric Burns
“History is not illegible,” said Mr. Burns. “It may be complex, but it’s not magic and it’s not abstract and it’s not invisible. If someone shows you how to see what Gretchen and her colleagues did, you can never see it again. “
While the documentary builds its devastating argument that America has restricted black freedom since slaves were packed into ships destined for the colonies, it also has bright moments. Old photos and home videos give viewers a taste of the joy black families felt when their cars freed them from separate train journeys.
“The access to freedom that all Americans felt was particularly vivid among African Americans,” Burns said.
In one of her final interviews before her death at the age of 96 last year, famed Creole chef Leah Chase recalls the heyday of black motor guides like the Green Book, which lists companies where black travelers can safely shop, eat, and in the separated USA can stay
Another engaging sequence visits black resorts, including Oak Bluffs.
“Cutting out Oak Bluffs as a haven for African American vacationers is a crucial historical part of that story,” said Burns.
Cars also fueled the civil rights movement, allowing black and white activists to meet and travel together from city to city.
“The African American civil rights activists and their white accomplices drive around,” said Burns. In the film, Ms. Chase tells how she took shelter in her New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase’s.
“The Freedom Riders – they made the plans right here in this restaurant,” recalls Ms. Chase. “This was a safe haven for all of us.”
Against these uplifting scenes, the filmmakers weigh a number of worse consequences.
When the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination against businesses in the mid-1960s, travel guides ceased publication and many of the black-owned tourist establishments went under. Others were leveled for the construction of highways that cut through minority neighborhoods.
And travel itself is still risky for black drivers, as footage from dash cameras and viewers has increasingly shown. In several interviews, black parents reflect on the need to tell their children how to behave during a police stop if they are to survive.
“White Americans cannot understand the terrible horror that reigns in a racist society,” Christopher West, professor at Pasadena City College, told the filmmakers.
Mr. Burns hopes the documentary will inspire more people to recognize the persistence of racial enforcement and to oppose it.
“This is not an anti-police film,” he said. “We need our police. They are the foundation of our community. “
However, the film argues that modern policing still has roots in southern slave patrols and Jim Crow’s policies of controlling where black people could be and go.
“Nothing fills me with greater anger and dismay than the idea that there is no such thing as systemic, structural racism,” said Burns. “This story, like any story, is a call to action. When you see it, now you know what’s going on and then you have to say, “What am I going to do about it?”
Island moviegoers got an early glimpse of Driving While Black as a work in progress at a screening of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival in August 2019 that included a question-and-answer session with Mr. Burns and Mr. Lewis.
“I was so proud of the vineyard. I was so moved, ”said Mr. Burns this week. “In the history of this film’s unfolding, that night was transformative for the filmmakers. Man, have we redoubled our commitment to what we did? “
Mr Burns said the next project he and Mr Lewis are working on is about 14th century Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the writer of the Divine Comedy.
The ninth episode in his PBS series New York: A documentary is also in the works, he said.
“There’s a lot on our minds these days,” said Mr. Burns. “I feel privileged.”


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Despite reading several travel guides to Portugal and looking at pictures of one of the most photographed churches in the country, nothing had prepared me for the sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte (Good Jesus of the Hill). Part shrine, part extravagant folly, symbolic of King João V’s (‘João the Magnificent’) reign (1706 to 1750), which also saw the building of the enormous convent at Mafra, Bom Jesus do Monte is ornate, theatrical, allegorical and totally compelling. It is a wonderful example of the baroque style (grand structures, curves, ornamentation and symmetry), particularly the staircase. Bom Jesus do Monte was commissioned by the Archbishop of Braga in 1722. The staircase and church were designed by the architect Carlos Amarante and took 60 years to complete. The site is now a important place of pilgrimage, particularly during Lent, when on each Sunday of Lent there is a religious celebration which takes in the 14 chapels and culminates with a service in the church.
We caught a bus from the railway station in Braga which went all the way to the bottom of the sanctuary. After getting off the bus we made a major mistake and followed the other tourists onto the funicular, which is a quick and easy way to get to the top of the sanctuary, but misses the main reason to visit Bom Jesus do Monte, namely the Via-Sacra (Way of the Cross) staircase. The funicular is impressive. Built in 1882 it retains its original charm and the gradient it climbs is breathtaking. But unless you have problems with walking, I urge you to climb the staircase. Yes, there are a lot of steps, but it is so beautifully set out that there is something of interest on every part of the steps and the walk becomes a leisurely one with surprises at each turn.
After realizing our mistake we rather embarrassingly returned to the bottom of the hill by funicular and this time walked through the archway which marks the entrance to the sanctuary. The archway leads to a long zigzag flight of steps through a wooded area, but before we started climbing the steps we were drawn to two chapels either side of the archway, containing life-size statues. These chapels line the staircase, depicting scenes of the Easter story from the Bible, beginning with the Last Supper at the start of the Via-Sacra and culminating in a moving scene of Jesus on the cross inside the church at the top of the hill. Further up the hill from the church the chapels continue the story after the crucifixion. Sadly, the chapels are a bit neglected and they are not lit inside, so it is hard to make out the impressive detail that the original sculptors included in the scenes.
We continued along the zigzag section until we were suddenly afforded one of the most famous views in Portugal: looking up the granite and white plaster staircase, showing the ornamentation and symmetry of design, to the church at the top. There are three levels to the staircase and each level has fountains built into the wall and symbolic statues line the staircase. On the first level is a fountain which symbolizes Christ’s wounds. The second level represents the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch and sound) and the third level represents the three virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. To my astonishment there were very few people on the staircase, suggesting that most people go up to the top of the hill without seeing this amazing piece of architecture. There is so much to admire on the steps, in the detail of the statues and fountains, as well as spending time at each chapel to find out the next instalment of the Easter story, that reaching the top almost seemed anti-climactic. The area at the top of the steps has a church, a gift shop and two hotels. In front of the church are statues of more Biblical characters. From here there are lovely views of the city of Braga and the surrounding valley.
The highlight of the church of Bom Jesus do Monte is the aforementioned crucifixion scene over the main altar, which is large, theatrical and very moving. There is also a glass case containing the gory remains of a distinctly unwell-looking Saint Clemente, a statue of Jesus on the cross graphically depicting his wounds and, in contrast, a tasteful statue of the Virgin Mary surrounded by doves. The chapel of prayer is photogenically decorated in gilt.
As we had already suspected, most tourists visit the church and go no further. This means that the areas around the church are very quiet. Behind the church is a lovely shady area with trees, a stream and grottoes. It is a lovely quiet place to escape the heat of the sun. A little higher up is a boating lake and picnic area, which gets busy at the weekends when families from Braga come here to enjoy some cooler air, but on this hot weekday in June there was no one else around. We wandered a bit further and entered a wood with lots of enticing pathways and again we had it to ourselves. Even the chapels beyond the church, which continue the Easter story after the crucifixion, were devoid of tourists and we could enjoy views over the Braga area below in silence.
I think I would have been disappointed by Bom Jesus do Monte if I had only experienced the funicular and the church, as many tourists do. However, the baroque extravagance of the staircase, the unfolding of the Easter story through the statues in the chapels around the sanctuary, the theatrical scene in the church and the hidden grottoes and areas behind the church combined to make this one of the most remarkable and memorable places I have visited.
The number 2 bus runs from Braga railway station and from the Avenida da Liberdade in the centre of Braga to the bottom of Bom Jesus do Monte. It takes approximately 20 minutes and costs €1.65 one way. Buses run every half hour.
The funicular runs from near the bus stop at Bom Jesus do Monte to the top of the hill. It costs €1.20 one way or €2 return.


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It's here, it's here! We are super excited to participate in the Lonely Hearts Release Day Blitz! Heidi Cullinan is an out of this world author and her Love Lessons series are simply amazing. The latest installment delivers one of the more painfully honest New Adult stories I've read. I can't recommend it enough. Scroll down for an excerpt and review!
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Even hot messes need a happily ever after.
Even hot messes need a happily ever after.
With the quiet help of his wealthy family, Sebastian “Baz” Acker has successfully kept his painful past at bay. But as the end of college draws near, his friends—his buffer zone—are preparing to move on, while his own life is at a crippling standstill.With loneliness bearing down on him, Baz hooks up—then opens up—with Elijah Prince, the guy Baz took a bullet for last year. The aftershocks of their one-night stand leave giant cracks in Baz’s carefully constructed armor. For the first time, the prospect isn’t terrifying.
Accustomed to escaping his demons by withdrawing into his imagination, Elijah isn’t used to having a happy herd of friends. He’s even less comfortable as the object of a notorious playboy’s affections. Yet all signs seem to indicate this time happiness might be within his grasp. When Baz’s mother runs for a highly sought-after public office, the media hounds drag Baz’s and Elijah’s pasts into the light. In the blinding glare, Baz and Elijah face the ultimate test: discovering if they’re stronger together…or apart.
Warning: Contains sex in a Tesla, sex in a cupboard, sex under a piano, kinky role play, and a cappella RuPaul songs. Just a couple of boys groping, battling, then finally loving their way to becoming men.
Excerpt - Why You?
“Forget the money.” Elijah glared at him. “Easy for you to say.” A tic formed in Baz’s cheek. He shut the computer and glared right back, or ostensibly he did. Fucking sunglasses. He looked as if he wanted to say something but kept swallowing it.
Elijah gripped the mug so hard he thought he might break it. If he offers to pay me to be his date at the fundraiser, I’m throwing this coffee at his head.
Baz threw up his hands. “Fine. If you don’t want to go, say so.”
God, Elijah hated how this guy could tie him up inside. “I didn’t say I didn’t want to. I said I shouldn’t. I need to make money. Be responsible.”
“You have enough money in your fund for school. More than enough.” “
Yes, and my fund makes me want to throw up.”
“Because it’s at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and still rising. Somebody, one person, put twenty-five thousand in just the other day. I could go to school twice with what’s in that account. I don’t understand where it all came from. Who all these people are. I owe all of them. I don’t know what I owe them. Just that I do and have no way to ever pay them back.”
“You don’t need to pay anybody back. You certainly don’t owe penance in the school cafeteria.”
“What the fuck would you know about it?”
He snorted. “Penance? I know plenty.”
Elijah clutched his coffee to his belly, sloshing some on his pajama pants. He stared at the floor, feeling angry, anxious and hollow. “I don’t want it. The money. The help. But I don’t have any choice. I have to take it. But I don’t know what to do with it.” Tears pricked his eyes, and he shut them. Tight.
When he heard the scrape of Baz’s chair, his stomach flipped over. He tried to drink his coffee, but his hand shook. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Baz’s bare feet appeared in front of his own. Hands took the coffee cup away.
Elijah wrapped his arms around his belly and kept staring at the floor, except now he stared at Baz’s groin and feet. “You don’t understand.”
“The fuck I don’t. Ever since that goddamned night when I was sixteen, I’ve had bubble wrap around me. Yeah, I was a privileged rich kid, but after I was the tragic rich kid. My whole family and all my friends live to wipe my ass. Poor Sebastian. Don’t upset him. But don’t let him hurt himself. Don’t let anything happen. You want to talk about feeling like you owe somebody? Every goddamn day they all remind me I’m the boy who lived. Then they want to know why I can’t move on.”
Baz was so close each breath Elijah drew was Baz-scented. Night sweat and coffee and a whisper of morning breath, lingering detergent and old deodorant not cutting the mustard anymore. How fucked up was he? Baz was baring his soul, and all Elijah wanted to do was lick him.
When Baz put a hand on Elijah’s hip, Elijah had to grip the counter to keep from leaning into him. Talk. Stop being such a fucking mopey tool. “Why...why do you...” want me? “Why...me?”
On Elijah’s hip, Baz’s thumb made a slow circle. “I don’t know.” Slower circles. Like a massage. Four inches from Elijah’s groin. “I don’t know.”
Elijah dug his fingernails into the Formica. “You’re going to be a jerk again. And then we’ll be in the middle of the fucking desert or something.”
“No deserts in Illinois.”
“Fine. You’ll leave me in a cornfield.”
“You’re the only one who can drive. You can leave me in the cornfield.”
“Like I would.”
“You would, actually. I think... I think that might be why. Why...you.”
Baz and Elijah are acquaintances of sorts. Granted that acquaintance is limited to the two times Baz has saved Elijah’s life and nothing in between. Their strange, distant and tenuous relationship erupts into a hot and sexy evening, the night of Walter and Kelly’s wedding. Elijah gets that the night is a one off since neither he nor Baz do relationships. But what he doesn’t understand is why Baz completely ignores him afterwards. For a young man already dealing with severe abandonment issues, Baz’s brush off hurts.
Ever since Baz rescued a young teenage Elijah from a trick gone wrong, he’s been discreetly watching him and making sure he is ok. To the extent of taking a bullet for him when Elijah’s dad loses his mind on campus. The night they spend together during Walter and Kelly’s wedding was bound to happen but Baz doesn’t know how to handle the lingering emotions after the experience so he does what he does best and ignores Elijah.
When Baz’s mom decides to run for office, she insists he attend a function with a serious boyfriend in tow. And if Baz doesn’t have one, she’ll hire one for him. Regardless of his behavior, there is only one person he wants to have as a pretend boyfriend and that person is Elijah. After some serious convincing, Elijah agrees. Of course, they find that they both want more than a pretend relationship with the other. As their relationship quickly grows to something neither were prepared before, they realize they each have to grow up in other ways as well.
As always, Heidi Cullinan introduces beautiful and realistic and slightly broken characters. Elijah is recovering from a lifetime of dealing with his horrible bigoted and abusive parents. After all he has been through and done, it is taking strength he never knew he had to help himself. But with the help of all his friends (that he pretends he doesn’t want) and the school pastor who takes him so he has a safe haven, he finds that, just maybe, he can make it through life. Baz has been “coasting” through college. I only used that word because he has the wealth and privilege to draw out his college career. But the reasons he has drawn it out have nothing to do with his financial situation and everything to do with the beating he endured as a teenager. A beating that left him permanently disabled.
Regardless of their pain, neither of these characters are written in a way to manipulate the reader into feeling sorry for them. They are who they are. Yes, Baz will always have serious vision issues and constant pain (both things that seriously impact his career options) and Elijah will probably always deal with depression and PTSD. But they never feel sorry for one another. It’s more of a, “okay, you have some issues, so do I, let’s just work with it” sort of attitude. It’s refreshing to see people with their type of baggage portrayed as people who just ARE. Because that’s real life. Life keeps happening and Elijah and Baz are going to figure out how to make it happen together.
Many of the secondary characters in this story are people we’ve met in Love Lessons and Fever Pitch. They provide a wonderfully large positive support system to Elijah and Baz. There are new characters too. The one that stands out the most is Lewis/Leila. The secondary story of her transition is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. And I was thrilled to see that she will be getting her own story in this series.
I don’t often talk about triggers in stories but since this can sometimes be an issue for me, I thought I would mention it. Both Elijah and Baz rely on alcohol and drugs to deal with their pain, depression and anxiety. This isn’t a story about drug abuse but this is THEIR story and they do partake freely. The author is shamelessly honest about this part of their lives. Her portrayal of it and how they address it is informed, empathetic and beautifully sensitive. I’m beginning to think there isn’t a subject that Heidi Cullinan can’t tackle with compassion and understanding.
I’ve been on a reading streak of great romances and Lonely Hearts is no exception. If you are looking for a steamy, entertaining and thoughtful New Adult read then you should definitely pick up Lonely Hearts. And if you haven’t read Love Lessons and Fever Pitch, I highly recommend those as well.
About the Author
Proud to be from the first Midwestern state with full marriage equality, Heidi writes positive-outcome romances for LGBT characters struggling against insurmountable odds because she believes there’s no such thing as too much happy ever after. A member of Romance Writers of America since 1999, Heidi has served as president of Rainbow Romance Writers, run local chapter newsletters, and volunteered for committees on the national level. In addition to teaching writing since 1993, she also served as the writer’s workshop coordinator for GayRomLit Retreat for 2013. Find out more about Heidi at heidicullinan.com.

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Breathing Space (Trainer House)
Posted: 12 December 2019 12:37 pm.
Way back in 2017, Stepping Stone Projects were approached by Lancashire County Council to develop and deliver a bespoke service forming part of the wider Youth Homelessness Trailblazer Project: The Trainer House.
The Trainer House has been set up to offer short stay accommodation for young people to get a taste of independent living before making a decision to leave home. Sarah Shorrock, who is currently on a secondment and coordinates the 'Breathing Space' project, has commissioned a film about the experiences of one young person who has stayed in the Trainer House.
Please take a look at the film to see the great work we have been doing to prevent youth homelessness across East Lancashire.

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I Am Pusheen the Cat Book
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- I Am Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton
- Publisher: Gallery Books (October 29, 2013)
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They went and did it. The House, primarily along party lines, voted in favor of Big Business over public health and safety by passing the “Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2011.” It joins the “Regulatory Accountability Act” and the “Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act” as a trio of devastatingly harmful deregulation bills.
The REINS Act, along with its two ugly cousins, would seriously undermine the ability of agencies to protect the public. A vast array of new health, safety, environmental, financial and other regulatory protections would be in jeopardy.
The REINS Act would allow a new Congress to block the implementation of legislation passed by a previous Congress – without actually having to repeal popular laws. It would block the enforcement of health care, financial and environmental reforms that have already been enacted.
One of the GOP goals is to drip as much molasses into the regulatory process as possible, and REINS would do that nicely. By requiring congressional approval of agency rules, it would effectively end rule making – and that’s the plan.
The Coalition for Sensible Standards, of which Public Citizen plays a leading role, outlined the damage the REINS Act would do if it became law in a story today by the Associated Press. Among other things, the bill would:


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Last night I was seeing a movie, in which a student was having a dream to be selected in IIT and he worked day and night for this purpose.
But he could not be selected. This shattered his dream and he tried to do suicide due to this reason.
I was shocked by this.
This inspired me to post this blog.
If you are not selected in IAS or IIT, etc.
But it was your very purpose, aim, target and you lost it. You are feeling looser. Your other friends have been selected.
Don't worry. Don't loose your heart!
You must think :
If all people will become IAS, who will perform the other jobs?
If all people do IIT, who will do the other jobs?
It has been done by the Almighty!
He can never do anything bad for you!
Since He loves you!
Certainly He has chosen anything better for you for which you are most suitable.
He does not want any thing for you which people consider to be the best.
But He wants any thing for you which will make you feel happy and which is most suitable for you!
Since He knows about you better than you!
It is not necessary that any thing which public considers the best will make you happy ultimately!
Hence always see your happiness since every thing is done to make you happy finally!
Hence be happy on the decision of Almighty!
Don't loose your heart!

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